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AAP did not accept illegal foreign funds: Centre tells Delhi HC

India Blooms News Service | | Feb 19, 2015, at 01:02 am

New Delhi. Feb 18 (IBNS): Amid several allegations on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over its funds, the Centre on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that the party did not accept any foreign money illegally.

Home Ministry's counsel told the court that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has found nothing against the AAP.

However, the HC directed the government to file a fresh status report in a sealed cover on its findings.

It also reserved a verdict on a petition seeking a CBI investigation into AAP's alleged foreign funding.

Arvind Kerjiwal's Aam Aadmi Party came to power in Delhi last week following a landslide victory in the recently held Delhi Assembly polls.

Amid its poll campaign, the AAP was accused of accepting illegal funding.

The Income Tax department had earlier sent a notice to the AAP questioning an election funding of Rs 2 crore from some sources that had raised a controversy of ill gotten money being accepted by the party that swept the Delhi polls.

The AAP earlier had rejected allegations made against it by a breakaway group of receiving donations from bogus companies and called their claims as 'malicious and false propaganda'.

The AAP had also challenged the BJP-led NDA central government to probe its funding from any of the agencies.

It came after Aam Aadmi Volunteer Action Munch (AVAM), comprising former party members, in a media briefing before polls had alleged that the AAP got funds worth Rs 2 crore from companies which were only trying to evade tax.

AAP had claimed that all AAP donations are transparently published on the website and AAP is the only party that has voluntarily agreed to come under the RTI law. AAP had raised nearly Rs 30 crore for Delhi elections.

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