AAP’s horse-trading claim against BJP: No evidence found by ACB

When contacted, Joint Commissioner of Police (ACB) Madhur Verma confirmed the development.

Last week, Kejriwal and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh alleged the BJP had embarked connected ‘Operation Lotus’ successful Delhi, and was seeking to bribe arsenic galore arsenic 16 leaders of their party, offering each of them Rs 15 crore, to leap ship. AAP MLA Mukesh Ahlawat, who was stated to beryllium among the 16 leaders, shared a mobile fig connected his X account. He said that helium got the telephone from that number.

The anti-graft assemblage issued announcement to Kejriwal and Ahlawat to supply accusation regarding the allegations.

“Whether the tweet posted astatine the pursuing URL of X (formerly Twitter), has been posted by you oregon otherwise?… Details of the 16 candidates for MLA of AAP who received telephone calls regarding the connection of a bribe (sic),” the ACB stated successful its notice.

It besides sought details of telephone numbers of radical who approached AAP legislators; grounds and impervious to enactment the assertion oregon allegations of the connection of bribe; and to explicate wherefore “appropriate ineligible enactment should not beryllium taken against persons spreading specified accusation connected media/social media platforms which is tantamount to make panic and unrest amongst the radical of Delhi”.

According to the AAP, a squad led by an ACP-level serviceman reached Kejriwal’s residence but was not allowed to spell successful arsenic it did not person immoderate “official warrant” related to the enquiry.

According to sources successful the ACB, investigators person “not recovered immoderate applicable evidence” successful transportation with the allegations truthful far. “AAP leaders person failed to supply immoderate impervious oregon grounds that could corroborate their claims. Notices were served to Kejriwal and Ahlawat, but neither of them has recorded their statements truthful far,” an ACB root said.

Another root said a mobile fig shared by Sanjay Singh has been verified, and it was recovered that the idiosyncratic was known to Ahlawat. The idiosyncratic recorded a connection earlier the ACB, telling them helium knew Ahlawat beforehand and lone called him backmost aft receiving missed calls from the MLA. He besides told the ACB helium ne'er made immoderate connection to Ahlawat, the root said.

On Friday, the Delhi BJP wrote to L-G V K Saxena seeking registration of a lawsuit against AAP leaders, including Kejriwal, implicit the party’s allegation of the BJP approaching AAP MLAs with bribes.