ED trying to shift me to police lockup for torture: AAP MP Sanjay Singh

NEW DELHI: After Aam Admi Party Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh moved an application against the Enforcement Directorate at the Rouse Avenue court alleging that the agency was creating "fictitious grounds" to shift him to a local police station lockup where he could be tortured away from CCTV cameras, ED told the court that it had no intention of shifting the MP to the lockup at Tughlaq Road police station.
The court of special judge Vikas Dhull, noting the submissions of ED, disposed of the application on Saturday. "In response to the application, it is submitted by learned special counsel for ED that pest control measures were taken in the lockup at the EDs office, which was planned on October 3, prior to sending of the present applicant/accused into ED custody on October 5. It is further submitted that since the applicant/accused had refused to be shifted to the other place due to pesticide treatment in the lockup room, therefore his consent was taken in writing for keeping him in the interrogation room at the ED office. It is further submitted by him that ED has no intention of shifting the applicant/accused to the lockup at PS Tughlaq Road since the work of pesticide control at lockup in the ED office stands completed," the court said on Saturday.
Singh, in his application, expressed apprehensions regarding his safety, saying that ED tried to shift him to a police lockup late in the night on October 5 on the basis of "weird and strange" reasons based upon "fictitious ground" with possibly an intent to do some harm to him. He requested the court to direct ED not to shift him to any other location from its headquarters when he was in the agency's custody.
The AAP MP stated in his application that when he resisted the attempt to shift/transfer him to the Tughlaq Road police station, he was "made to sleep outside the lock up and was subjected to inhuman treatment". He also said he had apprehensions about being subjected to torture at the police station, arguing that the ED, by creating a "bogus ground" for shifting him, was trying to keep his presence away from CCTV cameras.
The application also stated that according to the court's orders granting five days' custody to ED, the agency was required to ensure that Singh's interrogation would only be conducted in such a place "having CCTV coverage in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and the said CCTV footage shall also be preserved".