Cops summon Delhi CM in 2022 poll case

Panaji: Goa police on Thursday summoned Delhi chief minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal to appear at the Pernem police station at 11am on April 27 in connection with an FIR against the party for defacement of public property during the 2022 state assembly elections. It also asked AAP’s Goa president Amit Palekar to join investigation in the same case on Friday.
Police said a case was registered against AAP after it pasted posters on government properties in Goa in the run-up to the elections. “Failure to attend or comply with the terms of the notice can render you liable for arrest,” Pernem PSI police sub-inspector Dilipkumar Halarnkar stated in the notice issued to Kejriwal under provisions of the CrPC.
Halarnkar further stated that there were reasonable grounds to question Kejriwal in connection with the FIR that was registered under IPC section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and section 3 of the Goa Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1988.
Meanwhile, Palekar, who claimed that he hadn’t received the summons yet, termed the year-old case a “political vendetta”. “I am travelling out of Goa but will go to the police station once I am back,” he said.