A raid is underway at the home of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in connection with an excise policy matter.
MP Sanjay Singh said in a letter to the Finance Secretary T V Somanathan earlier this month that the ED Director and Assistant Director purposefully and without justification connected his name to the suspected liquor scam, destroying his reputation and defaming him.
Singh mentioned that his name was added on the basis of statements from Dinesh Arora.
Singh also alleged that the officers misused their position tarnished his public image and demanded prosecution against them. He said he already sent a legal notice to the officers to issue an open and public apology.
According to ED sources, the name of the AAP leader appears four times in the ED charge sheet out of which one reference was wrong and typed inadvertently.
At one place Sanjay Singh’s name was mentioned instead of Rahul Singh who was then excise commissioner.
ED is reportedly searching the residence of Sanjay Singh, further details are awaited.
