New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday alleged {that a} cop misbehaved with former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on the Rouse Avenue courtroom, a cost dismissed by the police. Sisodia was on Tuesday produced earlier than the courtroom in a cash laundering case associated to the alleged excise coverage rip-off.
Delhi Minister Atishi tweeted a video of the AAP chief being introduced out of the courtroom and stated, “Shocking misbehaviour by this policeman with Manish in Rouse Avenue Court. Delhi Police should suspend him immediately,” she wrote.
Responding to Atishi’s tweet, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal stated, “Does the police have the right to misbehave with Manish Sisodia like this? Has the police been instructed to do this?”
क्या पुलिस को इस तरह मनीष जी के साथ दुर्व्यवहार करने का अधिकार है? क्या पुलिस को ऐसा करने के लिए ऊपर से कहा गया है? https://t.co/izPacU6SHI
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) May 23, 2023
Delhi Police, nonetheless, rejected the cost and stated the cop’s motion proven within the video was crucial for safety.
“The matter of policeman misbehaving with Manish Sisodia in Rouse Avenue Court is propaganda. The police response shown in the video was necessary from a security point of view. It is against the law for an accused in judicial custody to issue statements to the media,” the Delhi Police stated in a tweet in Hindi.
राउज एवेन्यू कोर्ट में पेशी के समय श्री मनीष सिसोदिया के साथ पुलिस दुर्व्यवहार की बात दुष्प्रचार है।
वीडियो में प्रचारित पुलिस की प्रतिक्रिया सुरक्षा की दृष्टि से अनिवार्य थी।
न्यायिक अभिरक्षा में अभियुक्त द्वारा मीडिया को वक्तव्य जारी करना विधि विरुद्ध है।#DelhiPoliceUpdates
— Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) May 23, 2023
While Sisodia was being introduced out of the courtroom, he advised the media in reference to a invoice to switch the Centre’s Ordinance on Delhi’s Services matter that Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘doesn’t imagine in democracy’.
“Modi has become very arrogant,” he stated.
Manish Sisodia’s judicial custody prolonged
The Rouse Avenue courtroom on Tuesday prolonged the judicial custody of Manish Sisodia until June 1 in a cash laundering case associated to the Delhi excise coverage rip-off. The decide additionally directed the jail authorities to think about offering the previous Delhi Minister with a chair and a desk together with books contained in the jail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Sisodia for alleged corruption within the formulation and execution of the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy and for laundering the cash so generated. While CBI took him into custody on February 26 in a corruption case, the ED arrested him on March 9 in a cash laundering case.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi authorities carried out the excise coverage on November 17, 2021, however scrapped it on the finish of September 2022 amid allegations of corruption.
