Now, AAP can't call probe agencies' action against scams vendetta politics: BJP on Sanjay Singh's bail

The BJP on Tuesday mocked the AAP for ''celebrating'' a regular bail to its leader Sanjay Singh in the Delhi excise policy case as a clean chit to him and asked if by this ''logic'' it has accepted that jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the kingpin of the ''scam''.

Addressing a press conference, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said with the Supreme Court granting bail to Singh in the case, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) now has no right to claim that the action of central probe agencies against its leaders is ''vendetta politics''.

The Kejriwal-led AAP welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to grant bail to its Rajya Sabha MP in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, calling it a ''big day for democracy in the country and a moment of hope''. In a joint press conference, AAP leaders claimed that the court order ''exposed'' that the entire case was based on statements ''extorted'' from witnesses and approvers. The money laundering case is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

''The AAP claims that it is a party of very educated people and intellectuals but it is unable to distinguish between a grant of routine bail and a complete clean chit. The Supreme Court has granted bail to Sanjay Singh because the Enforcement Directorate did not oppose it,'' Poonawalla said.

''From now onwards, the AAP has no right to claim that any probe agency, particularly the ED and the CBI, is indulging in any kind of vendetta politics. If it was so, Singh would not have got bail in the case,'' he said.

A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Datta and P B Varale ordered the release of Singh, who has been in jail for six months. The ED said it has no objection if the AAP leader is given bail in the case. The BJP leader accused AAP leaders of projecting the grant of ''routine bail'' to Singh as a clean chit from the apex court and asked if they have accepted by ''their own logic'' that Kejriwal was the ''kingpin of the liquor policy scam'' and his former deputy Manish Sisodia served as his ''right hand in committing the scam'' as both of them have not got bail from court so far.

The AAP is ''celebrating'' Singh's bail and projecting as if the apex court has given him a clean chit in the case, he said. ''If getting bail from court means getting exonerated from the case, does the AAP accept that its leaders who have not been getting any relief from the court are guilty of committing the liquor scam in Delhi?'' Poonawalla asked. He said the grant of bail to Singh has proved that the AAP is a ''certified liar'' as it was raising questions on the law and justice system. ''The AAP was repeatedly alleging dictatorship and claiming that democracy is finished. Now, when the Supreme Court has granted bail, democracy for AAP stands restored,'' Poonawalla said and alleged that the Kejriwal-led party had been hatching a conspiracy to defame constitutional bodies. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said the bail to Singh in the liquor scam case was evidence of the ''impartiality'' of the judiciary and probe agencies of the country.

''The non-opposition by the ED to the bail application of Singh has established that the investigating agencies only demand the custody of an accused until it is legally necessary,'' he claimed.

The bail of Singh is a ''lesson'' for opposition leaders to understand that both imprisonment and bail are granted according to law and not by investigating agencies or the government, Sachdeva added.

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