ED arrests Manish Sisodia day before his bail hearing in CBI case
Sisodia was questioned by ED officials before his arrest in Tihar jail where he has been lodged following his earlier arrest on February 26 by the CBI over the same policy.
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Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia (File) A DAY before his bail plea was to come up for hearing in court, former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday in connection with its money laundering probe linked to the Delhi government’s now-scrapped excise policy.
Sisodia was questioned by ED officials before his arrest in Tihar jail where he has been lodged following his earlier arrest on February 26 by the CBI over the same policy.
मनीष को पहले CBI ने गिरफ़्तार किया। CBI को कोई सबूत नहीं मिला, रेड में कोई पैसा नहीं मिला। कल बेल पर सुनवाई है। कल मनीष छूट जाते। तो आज ED ने गिरफ़्तार कर लिया। इनका एक ही मक़सद है – मनीष को हर हालत में अंदर रखना। रोज़ नये फ़र्ज़ी मामले बनाकर। जनता देख रही है। जनता जवाब देगी
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 9, 2023
Sisodia’s bail plea in the CBI case will be heard by a special judge at Rouse Avenue Court on Friday. The court had earlier sent the AAP leader to judicial custody till March 20.
Following Sisodia’s arrest by the CBI, he had resigned from the Delhi government with the AAP handing over his portfolios to his party colleague Atishi. AAP had accused the CBI of “mentally torturing and harassing” Sisodia to accept “baseless” allegations.
On Thursday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, “Manish was first arrested by the CBI. CBI did not find any evidence, no money was found in the raid. There is a bail hearing tomorrow. Manish would have been released tomorrow. So today ED arrested him. They have only one aim – to keep Manish inside at all costs by creating new fake cases everyday. The public is watching. It will answer.”
The ED case was registered on a CBI FIR filed last year. In January, ED filed a supplementary chargesheet and claimed that the excise policy was created by top leaders of AAP to generate and channel illegal funds to themselves. The ED alleged that “the conspiracy was to give wholesale business to private entities and fix 12% margin (to get 6% kickback out of the same)”.
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