New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of former state Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia in a case related to a scrapped excise duty policy, which is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate.
The court also dismissed similar petitions by former AAP communication in-charge Vijay Nair, Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinapalli and Babu Binoy, manager of liquor company Pernod Binoy.
Sisodia is also being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the same case. He was arrested on February 26 by the CBI and then by the ED for alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy for 2021-22 and the subsequent money trail.
The CBI has called him the “chief architect” of the conspiracy, adding that the excise policy was created by AAP’s top leaders to continuously “generate and direct illegal funds for themselves”.
The ED has said that the policy was framed with “deliberate loopholes to facilitate illegal and criminal activities”.
The CBI has said that Sisodia allegedly misused his powers to “introduce favorable provisions in the new policy” to promote monopoly of wholesale and retail liquor trade for the “South Group”, which he is accused of It is alleged that he had paid Rs 100 crore in advance as bribe.
Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) MLC K.K. Kavitha – who is also the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister KCR – and Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinapalli, among others.
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