The officials said that the ED team informed Kejriwal’s staff at his residence that it had a search warrant against him in the excise policy case.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief had earlier skipped multiple summonses of the agency in the case.
The court, earlier in the day, refused to grant Kejriwal any protection from coercive action in an excise policy-linked money laundering case.
A bench headed by Justice Suresh Kumar Kait listed the AAP leader’s application seeking protection for further consideration on April 22 when his main petition challenging the summons is fixed for hearing, and asked the Enforcement Directorate to file its response.
“We have heard both sides and we are not inclined at this stage (to grant protection). The respondent is at liberty to file reply,” the bench, also comprising Justice Manoj Jain, said.
The ED placed before the court the documents pertaining to the probe and said there was material to show the necessity to call Kejriwal for questioning.
The application for interim relief forms part of Kejriwal’s petition challenging the ED’s summonses issued to him for questioning.
Kejriwal had moved the court in the wake of the latest summons, the ninth issued by the ED, asking him to appear before it on Thursday.
(With inputs from agencies)
