Fake documents case: Police quiz AAP’s Delhi MLA; he denies involvement

“We issued a notice for him to come again for questioning tomorrow (Tuesday). But he requested to appear on January 18, after filing his nomination,” a senior police officer said.

Goyal, the MLA from Rithala, called the questioning an attempt to kill his time during elections. “I joined the investigation today and cooperated with them. Whatever documents we provide, there is a registered entry of it. I have shown the papers sent from my office. What they have are fake documents,” he said in a statement.

A source close to Goyal added that no document has been issued from the MLA’s office and all the papers the police have shown have been forged from outside

According to police officers, the documents were seized during a “major crackdown on alleged illegal immigrants” on December 24 last year which led to the arrest of 12 people who were allegedly part of a racket facilitating illegal immigration of Bangladeshi nationals in the Capital.

Earlier, DCP (South) Ankit Chauhan had said that among those arrested, five were Bangladeshi citizens and the rest were allegedly involved in making forged documents like voter IDs and Aadhaar cards to facilitate the “illegal immigration process”.

“One of the key accused, who arranged the fake documents, was found in possession of Aadhaar documents with multiple signatures of MLA Mohinder Singh. As of now, it’s suspected that the MLA’s staff was involved in processing these documents as all these signatures were slightly different from the original,” the DCP had previously said.

The accused were found in possession of Bangladeshi IDs and birth certificates. As many as 21 Aadhaar cards, four voter IDs, and eight PAN cards were also recovered from the house of the accused, said police.