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Supreme Court issues notice to CBI and ED on Manish Sisodia’s plea.
Supreme Court issues notice to CBI and ED on Manish Sisodia’s plea.
Liquor Policy Case: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on petitions filed by Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia seeking bail in cases registered by the CBI and the ED in connection with the Delhi liquor policy scam. A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Bela M Trivedi and Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan also issued notice on Sisodia’s plea seeking interim bail to allow him to meet his ailing wife. Now the matter has been fixed for hearing on July 28.
CBI and ED had arrested
Along with many of the portfolios handled by him as the Deputy CM of Delhi, he also held the Excise portfolio. He was arrested by the CBI on 26 February for his role in the excise policy scam. Since then he is in jail. The ED arrested him in the money laundering case on March 9 after questioning him in Tihar Jail.
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Demand for bail on the basis of wife’s illness
Manish Sisodia had sought bail on the grounds of his wife’s illness. The Supreme Court said that it would consider granting interim relief to the Aam Aadmi Party leader on these grounds. The Delhi High Court had denied him bail in the CBI case saying he was a high-profile person with the ability to influence witnesses. On 3 July, the Delhi High Court refused him bail in a money laundering case related to the liquor policy scam, observing that the allegations against him were of a very serious nature.
The High Court had said that his party is still in power in the national capital Delhi. The influence of Sisodia, who once handled 18 departments, continues. Also, the court said that most of the witnesses in this case are people from civil service. Therefore, the possibility of their influence cannot be ruled out at all.
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