Arvind Kejriwal said there was no proof against any AAP leader.

New Delhi:

Courts are being lied to, those arrested are being tortured and there’s not a shred of proof of any wrongdoing, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday, a day after being summoned by the CBI in the capital’s liquor policy case.

Launching a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, Mr Kejriwal said agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) were going to extraordinary lengths to target their fiercest political opponents.

The agencies have falsely claimed that 14 phones were destroyed, lying to the courts in sworn affidavits, torturing suspects to extract falsified confessions and employing thuggish threats like “will see how your daughter gets to college tomorrow”, he claimed.

The Chief Minister also said that despite months of investigation, scores of arrests including his former deputy Manish Sisodia, the agencies have not found a single penny of ill-gotten wealth that they claim was amassed from the so-called liquor scam.

“When they found nothing in raids, they said the money had been funnelled into our Goa election campaign. Where is the proof of this? All our payments were made with cheques. Show me a single rupee of the Rs 100 crore you claim we got,” Mr Kejriwal said.

“If I say, without proof, that I paid Prime Minister Narendra Modi Rs 1,000 crore on the 17th of September at 7 pm, will you arrest him?” the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief asked.