Manish Sisodia. PTI file
New Delhi, May 2
Senior AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail in corruption and money laundering cases registered by the CBI and the ED against him in connection with the excise policy scam.
A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora agreed to take it up on Friday after advocate Rajat Bhardwaj mentioned Sisodia’s petition for urgent listing.
Sisodia has challenged a Delhi Special Court's April 30 order denying him bail in both – corruption and money laundering cases.
“Let the judge go through the file…let it come tomorrow,” Justice Manmohan told the petitioner’s counsel.
Noting that it was not the right stage to grant bail, the Special Court had dismissed Sisodia's bail pleas in corruption and money-laundering cases lodged by the both the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate in connection with alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy of 2021-22.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26, 2023 for his alleged role in the ‘scam’ and he resigned from the Delhi cabinet two days later.
The ED arrested him in a money-laundering case related to the scam on March 9, 2023 after questioning him in Tihar Jail.
The Delhi government had implemented the new excise policy on November 17, 2021, but scrapped it at the end of September 2022 amid allegations of corruption.
The profit margin of wholesalers was increased from 5 per cent to 12 per cent under the new policy, the probe agencies alleged.
The new policy resulted in cartelisation and those ineligible for liquor licences were favoured for monetary benefits, the agencies alleged. However, Sisodia denied any wrongdoing and claimed the new policy would have led to an increase in the city government's revenue.
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