NEW DELHI: AAP nationwide spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj Sunday claimed the CBI was “torturing” senior celebration chief Manish Sisodia and pressuring him to signal papers containing false prices. The federal probe company arrested Sisodia on February 26 for allegedly not cooperating within the investigation into the Delhi excise coverage case and being evasive on questions from investigators. A particular CBI court docket on Saturday prolonged the custody of Sisodia until March 6.
On February 28, Sisodia resigned from the Arvind Kejriwal-led cupboard.
According to officers, the company needs to utilise Sisodia’s custody to find the essential lacking file containing authorized opinions on the skilled committee suggestions on the excise coverage, which stays untraceable even now.
“Manish Sisodia is being tortured by the CBI and being pressured to sign the documents containing false charges framed against him. CBI has no evidence against Sisodia. They never mentioned any evidence is missing. They raided his residence but found nothing,” Bhardwaj instructed reporters right here on Sunday.
Sisodia, who was produced earlier than the court docket on Saturday on the expiry of his five-day CBI custody, claimed that he was “sitting for eight to nine hours and answering the same questions again and again” and termed it “mental harassment”.
To this, the choose, who had within the final listening to directed the CBI to not use the third diploma on the accused, instructed the probe company to not ask the “same questions again and again”. “If you have something new, ask him,” the choose mentioned.
