Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today moved the Delhi High Court seeking details of bank accounts, tax returns and other financial records of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who has filed a defamation suit against him.<br/><br/>The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo, in his application, contended that he is seeking such financial records of Jaitley and his family members from 1999-2000 to 2014-15, to disprove the claims made by the senior BJP leader against him and five other party leaders who were named in the defamation case.<br/><br/>Jaitley had filed the suit in 2015 seeking Rs 10 crore damages from Kejriwal, Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai.<br/><br/>The AAP leaders had allegedly attacked Jaitley and his family members in various fora, including social media, over alleged irregularities and financial bungling in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) of which he was the president for about 13 years till 2013.<br/><br/>Jaitley has already denied all the allegations of financial bungling in the DDCA during his tenure.<br/><br/>Jaitley, in December last year, had appeared before the high court to record his evidence in connection with the defamation case.<br/><br/>The high court had on July 12 framed issues against Kejriwal and others in the matter, notwithstanding their claim that they had not made any defamatory statement against him in the DDCA case.
News On AIR | February 25, 2017 8:20 PM
Kejriwal moves HC for bank account, tax details of Jaitley