NEW DELHI: Pursuing his complaint, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today appeared in a Delhi court and said Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders have made “false and defamatory” statements and rejected the charge that he had siphoned out money from Delhi’s cricket body DDCA for his own benefit.
Recording his statement before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Sanjay Khanagwal in a 70-minute deposition, Jaitley, an eminent lawyer himself, dismissed all the allegations and said he had not received any money from anybody during his tenure as President of Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA).
He accused them of making statements damaging his reputation even after the complaint was filed against them and that their statements against him and his family members lowered his dignity in the eyes of the public at large.
Jaitley charged Kejriwal with making these allegations against him and his family members to deflect attention from CBI probe “against a particular civil servant” who is working with him.
He was apparently referring to the CBI raid in the Delhi Secretariat on the office of IAS officer Rajendra Kumar, who is Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary. (AGENCIES)
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