New Delhi: AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Friday claimed that central probe businesses solely have “malicious and fabricated stories” towards former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and have been asking him the identical questions associated to their ongoing probe into the liquor rip-off. Meanwhile, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court earlier on Friday prolonged Sisodia’s Enforcement Directorate custody by 5 extra days in reference to a cash laundering case pertaining to alleged irregularities within the framing and implementation of the excise coverage of GNCTD. The courtroom additionally allowed Manish Sisodia to signal cheques for his household’s bills and his spouse’s medical bills of Rs 40,000 and Rs 45,000 respectively.
The AAP chief is going through a probe by the CBI and the ED in reference to the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage. He was first arrested by CBI in the identical case on February 26. Addressing a press convention, Chadha claimed the CBI and the ED have no proof towards Sisodia and he’s behind bars because of BJP’s “politics of revenge.”
“The BJP is scared of AAP and has started a politics of revenge. CBI and ED don’t have any evidence against Manish Sisodia. They only have concocted stories against him. When the court said that CBI took Sisodia on remand, interrogated him and did not find anything against him, they got ED to frame more false cases against him,” Chadha alleged.
“The central agencies only have malicious and fabricated stories against him. The CBI and the ED asked the same questions to Sisodia during his interrogation and the purpose of doing this was to keep Sisodia behind the bars,” he alleged.
In one other press convention, AAP chief Sanjay Singh alleged that Sisodia has been handled even “worse than a terrorist.” Chadha stated that the Enforcement Directorate officers have questioned Sisodia for under 15 hours throughout his 7-day remand.
The ED has informed Delhi’s Rouse Avenue courtroom that essential data had come up throughout Sisodia’s custody and he needed to be confronted with the opposite accused individuals. It stated information from his e mail and cell phone can also be being forensically analysed.
Sanjay Singh stated that the extension of ED custody for Manish Sisodia has “no context.” “BJP’s dictatorship will not be tolerated and the whole country is watching how the party is misusing the central agencies. A leader who sacrificed his life for the transformation of Delhi’s education has been targeted. Even a terrorist is not treated in such a manner,” Singh stated.
ED, CBI Probe Into Liquor Scam
Sisodia has been lodged in Tihar jail in reference to a Central Bureau of Investigation case pertaining to alleged corruption within the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage for 2021-22.
The ED additionally made one other arrest within the case earlier, because it took Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai into its custody. The probe company has additionally questioned Bharatiya Rashtriya Samiti (BRS) MLC and Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekhar Rao`s daughter, Okay Kavitha within the liquor coverage case.
The excise coverage was handed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi Cabinet in the midst of the lethal Delta Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The Delhi authorities`s model is that the coverage was formulated to make sure the technology of optimum income, eradicate the sale of spurious liquor or non-duty paid liquor in Delhi, in addition to bettering consumer expertise.
The CBI had filed a case towards alleged corruption within the 2021-22 excise coverage. The excise coverage was subsequently withdrawn by the AAP authorities. Sisodia was amongst 15 others booked in an FIR filed by the CBI. Excise officers, liquor firm executives, sellers, some unknown public servants and personal individuals have been booked within the case.
It was alleged that irregularities have been dedicated together with modifications within the Excise Policy and undue favours have been prolonged to the license holders together with waiver or discount in licence charge, an extension of L-1 license with out approval and many others.
As per the allegations, the Excise Department had determined to refund the Earnest Money Deposit of about Rs 30 crore to a profitable tenderer towards the set guidelines. Even although there was no enabling provision, a waiver on tendered licence charges was allowed from December 28, 2021, to January 27, 2022, as a consequence of COVID-19.
This allegedly brought about a lack of Rs 144.36 crore to the exchequer, which has been instituted on a reference from the Union Home Ministry following a advice from Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena.
