ED's Response To Arvind Kejriwal's Plea Against Arrest : Live Updates From Supreme Court

Singhvi: you were not contemplating political parties, business entities were contemplated. It's a business flavor. AoP will take color from...

J Khanna: A society will be covered by AoP

J Khanna: any person who is in-charge of company...you are vicariously liable alongwith company if an offense is committed by company. Definition of company includes Association of...

Singhvi: Mere mention of a company cannot lead to arrest of Managing Director. This is my argument

J Khanna: In reasons to believe, is it mentioned that he is being arrested because of S.70?

J Khanna: What he (Raju) is saying is in future AAP will be impleaded as accused

Singhvi: But that does not mean Kejriwal is arrested

J Khanna: Vicarious liability is not direct evidence...you are wrong. Person in-charge deemed responsible

Singhvi: They bring it under a residual clause

J Khanna: Is their any prosecution against AAP?

Singhvi: No

Singhvi: S.70 PMLA...anything or everything done by a political party cannot be attributed to its convenor or president. S.70 does not take name of unregistered AoP

J Khanna: AAP is?

Singhvi: It is not a corporate entity, registered under RP Act

Singhvi (reads): A public prosecutor is not expected to show a thirst to reach the case in conviction of the accused somehow or other

Argues PP is not part of investigating agency, he must independently apply his mind

ASG Raju: I am not complaining...but they have not given me soft copy of these...

Singhvi: We have given hard copies

Singhvi: Exculpatory statements were put in unrelied documents...on this aspect, please see Siddharth Vashistha's case (2010)