Manish Sisodia Feedback Unit Case: Trouble for jailed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Manish Sisodia is ready to rise as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named him and several other others in a prevention of corruption case associated to a ‘Feed Back Unit’ (FBU) created in 2015.
The CBI’s FIR names Manish Sisodia and 6 others: Sukesh Kumar Jain (IRS-1992), the then Secretary Vigilance, New Delhi; Rakesh Kumar Sinha (retd. DIG, CISF), working as Special Advisor to the CM and Joint Director, Feedback Unit, GNCT of Delhi; Pradeep Kumar Punj (Retd. Jt. Deputy Director, IB), working as Deputy Director, Feedback Unit, GNCT of Delhi; Satish Khetrapal (Retd. Assistant Commandant, CISF), working as
Feed Back Officer (FBO), GNCT of Delhi; Gopal Mohan, Advisor Anti-corruption to the CM of Delhi.
Sisodia is at the moment in Delhi’s Tihar Jail after the CBI arrested him on February 26 in in reference to alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage for 2021-22. He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) too final week.
What is Feedback Unit Case
In February, the Home Ministry had given its approval to to the CBI to prosecute Manish Sisodia in a corruption case linked to the ‘Feedback Unit (FBU)’ created by the AAP authorities in 2015.
The FBU was shaped following approval from Delhi Cabinet ministers. It was tasked to collect data and actionable inputs concerning work being executed by authorities departments, establishments and autonomous our bodies. The FBU was additionally mandated to conduct sting operations by its personnel to ‘lure’ individials.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, in a observe to Delhi Chief Secretary, had described the FBU as an ‘extra-constitutional, extra-judicial physique’ much like a non-public intelligence company.
