New Delhi: Rouse Avenue Court on Monday sent former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia to judicial custody till March 20, in the case pertaining to the excise policy case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained Sisodia in a corruption case involving the now-defunct tax scheme. He will then be transferred to Tihar Prison. Manish Sisodia petitions the court to allow him to practice Vipassana in jail. Sisodia informed the court that the jail had a Vipassana meditation method for the inmates. Manish Sisodia is permitted to practice Vipassana in jail by the court. The court also allowed Sisodia to provide the Bhagavad Gita and a pen diary to the inmates.
In the Delhi excise policy case, Sisodia was hauled to Rouse Avenue Court today after the end of his CBI detention. The investigation agency arrested him in connection with alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the Government of the National Capital Region of Delhi’s excise policy (GNCTD).
The investigation agency arrested him in connection with alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the Government of the National Capital Region of Delhi’s excise policy (GNCTD). Following his detention, he resigned as Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister on February 28. Meanwhile, on March 4, the Rouse Avenue Court extended Sisodia’s detention by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Delhi liquor scam case.
Earlier, Manish Sisodia stated in this bail plea that he was being asked the same questions over and over, which was causing him mental distress. According to the CBI, Sisodia was recalcitrant and evasive during his interrogation. They also cited lost time during his medical test and the Supreme Court hearing on his bail petition.
Manish Sisodia was taken before special judge M K Nagpal after the court granted him a seven-day prison interrogation period. The CBI detained Sisodia last week in connection with suspected corruption in the creation and implementation of the subsequently scrapped 2021-22 liquor policy.
As per the media reports, The government of Arvind Kejriwal has been accused of breaking norms and granting unfair favours to liquor vend licensees. The Delhi administration has dismissed the charges, claiming that the BJP was abusing investigative authorities for political purposes. Arvind Kejriwal has maintained the now-scrapped liquor regulation was the “most transparent policy in the country”.
