Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday urged the Delhi High Court to quash a summons issued by a lower court on a criminal complaint filed against him for allegedly giving “misleading information” in his affidavit ahead of the 2013 assembly elections.
Justice I S Mehta asked Neeraj Saxena and Anuj Agarwal, who had filed the complaint against Kejriwal on behalf of an NGO, to respond by August 4.
The trial court had issued the summons to Kejriwal in February 2016 on a complaint filed by Maulik Bharat Trust alleging that Kejriwal had “wilfully misled” the Election Commission by concealing his correct address and suppressing the market value of his property.
Kejriwal was granted bail in the case on December 24 last year.
The trial court had ruled that giving an improper address and also giving an improper valuation of the property “prima facie amounts to wilful concealment and suppression and also furnishing of false information and thus, there is sufficient ground for proceeding against the accused Arvind Kejriwal” under section 125 A (penalty for filing false affidavit) of the Representation of the People Act and section 177 (furnishing false information) of the Indian Penal Code.
The NGO had filed the complaint alleging that Kejriwal “suppressed the actual figures of property owned by him” and deliberately gave the wrong address of his property in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad.
It had said that “wilful concealment and suppression of correct address and value of the aforesaid property amounts to commission of a criminal offence under section 125A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 punishable with six months of imprisonment and/or fine or both”.
All candidates filing nomination papers are required to give an affidavit to the EC with details of the actual cost of property and any investments that they have made.
Meanwhile Kejriwal yesterday offered prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
It was Kejriwal’s first visit to Punjab after the results of the assembly elections were declared in March.
Kejriwal was accompanied by senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders from Punjab, including state convener and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann and co-convener Aman Arora.




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