Special Public Prosecutor on behalf of CBI Pankaj Gupta told the court that Sisodia was not cooperating in the investigation and that he did not disclose true facts related to above conspiracy.
Manish Sisodia row: Manish Sisodia achieved fame as education minister of Delhi by bringing about revolutionary changes in the government schools but his alleged involvement in a liquor policy scam dented his clean image.
Manish Sisodia has not been named as an accused in the charge sheet. Arrested businessmen Vijay Nair and Abhishek are among the seven accused named in the chargesheet.
Delhi excise policy scam case: Satyendar Jain is currently lodged in Tihar jail in connection with a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate. He, however, is not an accused in the excise scam case.
The CBI, in its notice to Kavitha, had mentioned that the case was registered on the basis of a written complaint received from Praveen Kumar Rai, Director in the Union Home Ministry against Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and 14 others regarding the excise policy of Delhi for 2021-22.
Delhi excise policy scam case: Kavitha had conveyed to the central agency that she will be able to meet them either on December 11, 12 or December 14, 15 at her residence in Hyderabad.
Delhi excise policy scam case: A day after receiving a notice from the CBI seeking clarifications in the case, the MLC of Telangana Rashtra Samithi sent a letter to the CBI on Saturday.
Delhi excise policy scam case: The central agency has issued the notice under Section 160 of CrPC, and asked her to intimate the place of residence as per her convenience for the examination at 11 am on that day.
Delhi Liquor Policy scam: PM Modi can put us behind the bars, but we will still be working for the people and expose the failures of the BJP, says Telangana CM KCR's daughter K Kavitha after her name appeared in ED's remand report.
Delhi excise policy news: It said that at least 36 accused, including Delhi Deputy CMManish Sisodia and a PA of CM Arvind Kejriwal, "destroyed or used" 170 phones in order to conceal evidence of kickbacks worth thousand of crores of rupees in the alleged scam.
Delhi excise policy case: Besides Indospirits promoter Mahendru, the prosecution complaint has also listed two other persons and is about 3,000 pages containing statements of the accused and annexures, they said.
The ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the Excise Policy, undue favours were extended to licence holders, the licence fee was waived or reduced and the L-1 licence was extended without the competent authority's approval.
Delhi excise policy case: The Special Judge MK Nagpal today noted that Enforcement Directorate required their further custody to confront some witnesses, evidence and voluminous documents.
Excise policy case: The CBI had on November 7 moved an application before the court seeking its permission to turn businessman Dinesh Arora an approver in the case.
Delhi excise policy: The two arrested persons were Benoy Babu, general manager of liquor company Pernod Ricard, and P Sarath Chandra Reddy, whole-time director and promoter of Aurobindo Pharma.
Delhi excise policy case: Among the accused in the case are Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the then Excise Commissioner Arva Gopi Krishna, Deputy Commissioner Anand Tiwari and Assistant Commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar.
"I have seen CBI's application and it has been filed with the request of the grant of pardon to me as I am ready to voluntarily make a true and full disclosure of all the facts pertaining to this case," Dinesh Arora said.
I was asked inside the CBI office to leave (AAP), or else such cases will keep getting registered against me, Sisodia claimed as he was leaving CBI headquarters after over 9 hours of questioning.
The CBI has not summoned the Deputy CM again as of now. Sources said that the central probing agency will evaluate answers given by Sisodia and decide whether he has to be called again or not.
Excise policy scam: The agency has also arrested Vijay Nair, an AAP worker and the former CEO of Only Much Louder, an entertainment and event management company, and Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinpally, officials said.
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