AAP and BJP spar over arrest of Goa functionary

New Delhi: Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday claimed that a person named Charanpreet Singh, who was recently arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in Goa in the excise policy case, was being dubbed the fund manager of AAP but there was no such post in the party.
Bharadwaj said the same person was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation but was granted bail by the court for lack of concrete evidence against the person.
“This is being made into huge news, as if someone big has been arrested. Why is it being telecast as such breaking news? It is because the ED has no evidence to take the matter further. They can only make noise to convince people that a scam has been done,” Bharadwaj claimed.
“The only evidence based on which Charanpreet Singh has been arrested is that there is a hawala operator in Gujarat who has written Charanpreet’s name in Gujarati on the notes... If their accusations are right, then what was the money doing in Gujarat? Why was an operator writing about it on notes in Gujarati? And since when did the court start considering handwritten entries as proof?” Bharadwaj questioned.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said Saurabh Bharadwaj's claim that Goa's AAP functionary Charanpreet Singh was innocent was a concocted statement.
“Bharadwaj makes similar claims after every arrest, but every arrested leader has failed to get bail justifying the grounds for arrest. Charanpreet Singh will prove to be the cause of the long stay of Kejriwal behind bars,” Sachdeva said.