AAP chief and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia at Rouse Avenue Court in reference to the Delhi excise policy case in New Delhi on March 6, 2023.
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The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday is predicted to question and report the assertion of former deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia as a part of its cash laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy, official sources mentioned.
The federal probe company additionally made a contemporary arrest in this case because it took into custody Hyderabad-based liquor businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, they mentioned.
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Officials of the ED will attain the Tihar Jail round midday to report the assertion of Mr. Sisodia beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Mr. Sisodia was arrested by the CBI in this case final month and he’s at present in judicial custody.
Why was Delhi’s former deputy CM Manish Sisodia arrested?
Mr. Pillai was taken into custody beneath the legal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Monday night following a protracted session of questioning.
The businessman, alleged to to have represented the ‘South Group’ of liquor merchants in this case, is the eleventh individual to be arrested in the case by the ED.
He can be produced earlier than an area courtroom the place the ED will search his additional custody for interrogation, they mentioned.
