The Enforcement Directorate termed as “baseless” and “malicious” claims of AAP leader Atishi that the federal agency deleted audio recordings of an accused interrogated by it in the Delhi liquor scam, sources said on Tuesday.

The agency is also mulling to take legal action against the AAP leader, they said.

The sources claimed the CCTV systems at the ED office were only modernized in October last year which enabled audio recordings of interrogations and since then, questioning of all accused has been done with audio-video recording, including that of AAP leader Sanjay Singh.

They said the CCTV system did not have audio recording facility when the said accused in the liqour scam was interrogated.

Earlier, Atishi, while addressing a press conference, claimed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had erased all audio files of the investigation done by it in the past one-and-a-half years.

She further alleged that the accused, in the liquor scam, had filed an application in court seeking the CCTV footage of his interrogation. She said the accused claimed that the statement submitted by the ED in court was different from what had transpired in the interrogation room.

“The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has information from trusted sources that all the audio files of the footage of investigations done by the ED in the past one-and-a-half years have been deleted by the agency,” she added.

The AAP leader added that she has filed applications in the special courts of both ED and CBI to get the access of these audio-visual recordings.