Jaitley can’t intimidate us with court case: Kejriwal

“There are DDCA records which can be summoned”, his lawyer Siddharth Luthra told the court, according to the Press Trust of India.

The Congress, which faced Jaitley’s wrath in the Lok Sabha, sought a Joint Parliamentary Probe instead.

Kejriwal and the five AAP leaders have publicly been making allegations against Jaitley with regard to the DDCA affairs although some of the allegations have gone beyond that. He stated forty three company packing containers have been created and tickets have been bought prematurely for 10 years to boost monetary assets.

Talking to reporters later outside the house, Azad said people would have had greater faith if there was a high court-monitored special investigation team (SIT) probe in the DDCA affairs as the CBI was under the administrative control of the central government.

“Jaitley should not try to scare us by filing cases against us”.

On Monday, Kejriwal tweeted: “If there was so much proof against any of my ministers, we would have made him resign, like we did in the case of (Jitender) Tomar and Asim (Ahmed Khan)”.

Kejriwal hit back at the minister on Twitter after the criminal and civil suits, asking Jaitley to prove his innocence to an independent enquiry committee. He had earlier opposed former sports minister in the UPA government Ajay Maken’s proposal to make sports bodies like the DDCA more transparent and accountable.

Bhushan, a former Aam Aadmi Party leader, said Congress should not cry political vendetta in the National Herald case.

“I am upset that the defamation suit is not against me”.

Azad, a Lok Sabha member from Bihar, on Sunday alleged massive corruption in the DDCA. Jaitley, on his part, said, “The charges (against me) are baseless and wrong”.

The party of the firebrand activist-turned-politician seized power in February on the platform of providing a corruption-free government in the capital.

PTI reports: However, the BJP today came out in strong support of Jaitley, with party president Amit Shah terming all the allegations levelled by the AAP against the Finance Minister as “baseless and far from truth” and asserting that the party stood with him and will not allow any “conspiracy” to defame him to succeed. Demanding a change in juvenile law, she asks, “if there is no age for crime, why is there an age for punishment?”

Shah said the AAP was mistaken if it thought it could malign Jaitley. So they referred the case to the Serious Frauds Office. Though Modi is yet to react publicly on the episode, Shah said on Monday evening Jaitely “has led his public life on principles which the entire country knows”. “Jaitley has not drawn a single penny from the DDCA”, Luthra said during the 35-minute long hearing. Azad had even requested Delhi Police to thoroughly investigate the matter against Jaitley.