New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed a supplementary cost sheet towards former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and others within the excise coverage rip-off case. The CBI had arrested Sisodia on February 26 and it filed the cost sheet on the 58th day which can deny him the possibility of getting default bail.
The company has additionally named Hyderabad-based CA Butchi Babu Gorantla, liquor dealer Amandeep Singh Dhall and personal particular person Arjun Pandey within the cost sheet.
The CBI has invoked IPC 120-B (prison conspiracy), 201 and 420 apart from provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
In its cost sheet filed earlier than a particular CBI courtroom right here, the company stated the probe is stored open to look into bigger conspiracy and function of different accused within the case.
The CBI had filed the final cost sheet on November 25, 2022.
It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants favoured sure sellers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the AAP. The coverage was later scrapped.
“It was additional alleged that irregularities had been dedicated, together with modifications within the excise coverage, extending undue favours to the licensees, waiver/discount in licence payment, the extension of L-1 license with out approval and so on.
“It was also alleged that illegal gains on the count of these acts were diverted to concerned public servants by private parties by making false entries in their books of accounts,” a CBI spokesperson had stated after the FIR was filed on August 17 final 12 months.
