Arvind Kejriwal arrest: Who are Maguntas, Sarath Reddy and what's their connection with Delhi excise policy case

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday submitted in Hindi in the Rouse Avenue Court following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21. Kejriwal said his name had appeared in four statements in the case. People who mentioned Delhi CM in their statements in the Excise Policy case are—C Arvind (former deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's secretary); Magunta Srinivas Reddy (MP from Andhra Pradesh); Reddy's son Raghav Magunta, and Sarath Reddy.

Giving details of the statement in which his name appears, Kejriwal said, “Magunta Srinivas Reddy came to my office at 4.30 pm on March 16, 2021. He had sent an e-mail to my office that he is an MP and wanted to meet me. My office gave him an appointment to meet me after 10 days. He came over and said I want to open my family's charitable trust in Delhi. I told him that land does not come under us, it comes under the Lieutenant Governor (LG)."

Arvind Kejriwal asked Magunta Srinivas Reddy to give him the letter, which he would forward to the Lieutenant Governor. 

Magunta Srinivas Reddy is an MP from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy's party, the YSRCP. 

The Delhi CM said on September 16, 2022, Srinivas Reddy's house was raided, and the ED asked him whether he had met Kejriwal. When Reddy replied in the affirmative, saying his meeting was about seeking land for his family's trust, the ED was “not happy", and later, the agency arrested his son in February 2023.

“When the son remains arrested for five months, the father changes his statement. He changed his statement on July 16, 2023, and his son was released on July 18. Mission accomplished. That means the only mission of the ED was to get me trapped," Kejriwal said.

The Delhi Chief Minister