Delhi Excise Policy case: AAP MP Sanjay Singh writes to Union Finance Secretary seeking action against ED officers

In a five-page letter to Union Finance Secretary, Singh said that ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Assistant Director Joginder Singh who is the investigating officer have damaged his reputation by naming him in the case.

New Delhi:Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, who has been named by the Enforcement Directorate in its charge sheet in the Delhi Excise Policy case has written to the Union Finance Secretary seeking action against the ED officials for defaming him by “misusing their position”. In a five-page letter written to the Union Finance Secretary, Sanjay Singh has written that his name has been wrongly taken in the alleged liquor scam case.

Singh said that ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Assistant Director Joginder Singh who is the investigating officer have damaged his reputation by naming him in the case. Both these officers have misused their position, he said. Singh said that after his name was linked to the case, he sent a defamation notice to ED officials on Apr. 22.

Sanjay Singh, through his lawyer Maninderjit Singh Bedi, had sent the defamation notice to ED director Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Assistant Director Joginder Singh probing the excise policy case. Singh had asked the ED officers to apologize within 48 hours, failing which legal action will be taken against them.

The defamation notice came after the ED in its charge sheet of 6 Jan. this year named Singh in the alleged irregularities in the now scrapped Delhi Excise Policy. Pertinently, AAP MP Ragahv Chadha was too named in the case on Tuesday. The ED has not named the two AAP leaders as accused in the case. Chadha on Tuesday rubbished reports that he had been named as accused in the case.

In a detailed statement, the AAP MP urged the media to refrain from linking his name with the case while also threatening of legal action.