The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday summoned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia over which Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj said that Sisodia “will be arrested tomorrow”.
“CBI has summoned Manish Sisodia and will arrest him tomorrow. It has been alleged that a huge scam of Rs 10,000 crore has taken place and for that CBI and ED (Enforcement Directorate) have raided at least 500 places so far. CBI raided Sisodia’s residence for 14 hours, but they could not find anything,” AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj said.
“This is directly linked with Gujarat elections as AAP competes with the BJP there and hence is scared. Manish Sisodia will be arrested to stop his programs but the AAP will only grow stronger,” Bhardwaj added.
Saurabh Bhardwaj further said that BJP is scared of AAP’s victory as in Gujarat AAP has emerged “stronger”.
The Central Bureau of Investigation summoned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday for questioning in the alleged excise policy corruption case. On Monday Sisodia will go to the agency headquarters to meet the officials.
Taking to Twitter Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia tweeted, “I will go and fully cooperate with the CBI as it has called me to the headquarters at 11 am tomorrow after raiding my house for 14 hours and searching bank account and even my village where they could not find anything.”
Earlier in August search operation was conducted on Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s official residence in connection with the alleged corruption in the implementation of Delhi’s excise policy.
Meanwhile, Sisodia has been under the scanner for providing undue benefits to the tender process for liquor licensees for the year 2021-22.
During the Delta COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal-led, Delhi Cabinet passed the excise policy.
Besides Sisodia 15 others have been booked and an FIR has been filed by the CBI in August. The case has also been filed including Excise Commissioner Arva Gopi Krishna, Deputy Commissioner Anand Tiwari, and Assistant Commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar.
Moreover, the other accused who are said to be involved are Manoj Rai, a former employee of Pernod Ricard; Amandeep Dhal, director of Brindco Sales; director of Buddy Retail Amit Arora, and Dinesh Arora; authorized signatories of Mahadev Liquors Sunny Marwah, Arun Ramchandra Pillai, and Arjun Pandey.
However, there is allegedly caused a loss of Rs 144.36 crore and the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said irregularities were committed while modifying the Excise Policy.