CBI summons Manish Sisodia once more for questioning in excise coverage case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has once more summoned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia for questioning, almost three months after submitting a chargesheet within the Delhi excise coverage case, officers stated on Saturday.

Sisodia has been referred to as for questioning on Sunday. However, Manish Sisodia has not been named as an accused within the cost sheet filed within the case.

Arrested businessmen Vijay Nair and Abhishek are among the many seven accused named within the chargesheet.

Alleging that the “full power” of businesses beneath the BJP-led central authorities had been unleashed to hound him, Manish Sisodia took to Twitter and stated, “CBI has called me again tomorrow. They have unleashed the full power of CBI, ED (Enforcement Directorate) against me, raided my house, searched my bank locker, and yet found nothing against me.”

“I have arranged good education for the children of Delhi. They want to stop it. I have always cooperated with the investigation and will continue to do so,” he added.

Last yr in August, the CBI carried out a search operation at Sisodia’s Punjab National Bank locker in reference to Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 cash laundering case, the place in response to him the CBI had discovered nothing.

Several raids had been additionally carried out at 21 locations in Delhi and the National Capital Region together with the residence of Sisodia and the premises of 4 public servants final yr, in response to a CBI official. The official stated that raids had been carried out in areas throughout 7 states.

The probe was carried out after considering a report forwarded by the Chief Secretary to Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena recommending a CBI investigation into the matter.

The excise coverage was handed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi Cabinet in the course 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, and eradicate the sale of spurious liquor or non-duty paid liquor in Delhi, in addition to enhancing person expertise.

It has been alleged that the Delhi authorities’s coverage of granting licenses to liquor merchants is within the curiosity of some sellers who allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly denied by AAP.

Following L-G’s advice, the workplace of the Assistant Commissioner of Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) issued a discover to Delhi’s Excise Commissioner asking him to supply all paperwork referring to the award of liquor licenses beneath the brand new excise coverage.

Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday stated that there was “no liquor scam” within the metropolis and claimed that the case over his authorities’s excise coverage was created because of “political vendetta”.

“First of all, there is no such thing as a liquor scam. We formulated the best and most transparent policy in the country. We implemented this policy in Punjab and the revenue increased by 48 per cent. All this is happening due to political conspiracy in Delhi.”

Addressing a press convention right here on Saturday, Kejriwal stated his authorities will absolutely cooperate with the CBI’s investigation into the alleged irregularities within the implementation of the now-scrapped excise coverage 2021-22.

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