Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court on Thursday sent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh to Enforcement Directorate custody till October 10. The decision came after the leader was produced before the court by the ED a day after his arrest in a money-laundering case linked to the agency’s probe into the Delhi liquor policy case. ED had sought Singh’s custody for 10 days.

Special Judge M K Nagpal remanded Singh in ED custody till October 10 to enable the federal probe agency to interrogate him. The AAP Rajya Sabha MP will be produced before the court on the expiry of his custody.

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In the prosecution complaint filed by the ED in the case, Singh’s name appears in a statement by businessman Dinesh Arora, an accused-turned-approver in the case. Singh was arrested on Wednesday following searches by the central probe agency at his residence that lasted over 8 hours.

The agency has alleged Singh’s involvement in a PMLA case linked to the Delhi liquor policy case, claiming that transactions worth Rs 2 crore were linked to the senior AAP leader and parliamentarian. The agency has also claimed that the amount was delivered to Singh at his residence by Dinesh Arora on two separate occasions. The AAP and Singh have vehemently denied these charges.

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“Sir, Amit Arora gave tens of statements, Dinesh Arora gave several statements, but they did not remember my name. I’m not that unknown that they forgot my name. Now they have suddenly remembered… There’s no separate law. I was not summoned even once. Why different law for me?” the AAP leader said rebutting the ED’s claim, according to PTI.

While being brought to the courtroom, Singh said his arrest was “an act of injustice” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose party was “going to lose the next Lok Sabha elections”. “This is Modiji’s injustice. He will lose election, he is losing election,” he told journalists.

Later, when the court asked him whether he wanted to say something, Singh claimed he was being treated unfairly.

The arrest has triggered a bitter war between the ruling AAP and Opposition BJP in Delhi. While AAP launched protests against Singh’s arrest, terming it as “illegal” and an act of “vendetta” for raising issues linked to industrialist Gautam Adani, the BJP said that the AAP government had lost all moral standing to continue in government.

“Sanjay Singh’s arrest is totally illegal. It highlights Modi ji’s anger. He will arrest several opposition leaders in the run up to the elections,” AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal posted on social media platform X.

Delhi minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj also hit out at the BJP over Singh’s arrest. “Sanjay Singh has been arrested without any evidence or concrete reason. It proves that the PM knows that he is losing the elections. There is desperation and fear of loss out of which the Central Government is making central agencies do such things”, he said.

Singh is the second high-profile arrest in the case linked to Delhi excise policy case after Manish Sisodia, the former Deputy CM of Delhi. Sisodia was arrested by the agency in February this year and has been in jail since then.