Former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia will probably be lodged in central jail number-1 of Tihar Prison right here after a court docket remanded him to judicial custody until March 20 in reference to the excise coverage case, in accordance with officers.
Sisodia was produced earlier than particular choose M Okay Nagpal earlier on Monday on the expiry of his seven-day custodial interrogation. The CBI instructed the court docket that it didn’t require the custody of the senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief for now.
A jail official stated Sisodia was dropped at Tihar following the court docket order and he will probably be lodged in jail number-1 after the completion of the due formalities.
Meanwhile, the AAP stated the CBI had no grounds to hunt Sisodia’s additional interrogation within the excise coverage case.
“There was no hearing on his bail plea. The court had to consider two options — either send him to judicial custody or extend his police custody. The CBI had no questions, no grounds to seek his interrogation. They have no documentary evidence,” AAP nationwide spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed.
Attacking the BJP, he stated its spokespersons have been alleging on TV debates that the excise coverage case is an open-and-shut case and exhibiting pretend paperwork to assert that there was a rip-off.
“If they have evidence, why don’t they hand it over to the CBI,” the AAP chief requested.
The court docket allowed Sisodia to hold the Bhagavad Gita, spectacles and medicines, and so on. To jail and directed the Tihar jail authorities to contemplate his request to be allowed to do Vipassana meditation.
“Everyone knows that he likes to write. He has also written a book ‘Shiksha’ that is widely popular and is read by people to know about Delhi’s education revolution. He has been a practitioner of Vipassana and the court has asked the jail superintendent to consider his request. It is a good time to work on oneself,” Bharadwaj stated.
He stated the court docket will hear Sisodia’s bail plea on March 10.
“If he is granted bail, his judicial custody will end,” the AAP spokesperson added.
The CBI had arrested Sisodia final week in reference to alleged corruption within the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi liquor coverage for 2021-22.
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