In the last one year, did Arvind Kejriwal or AAP member ever conducted a single press conference for explaining excise policy, asked BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra after the arrest of Manish Sisodia in Delhi's liquor policy case.
Manish is innocent. His arrest is dirty politics. There is a lot of anger among the people due to the arrest, said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The CBI has arrested Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. Sisodia was arrested a short while ago after nearly eight hours of questioning by CBI officials.
Delhi excise policy scam case: CBI informed in a statement on Wednesday (February 8), that the accused CA has been arrested for his alleged role in formulating and implementing the Delhi Excise Policy and causing wrongful gain to Hyderabad-based wholesale and retail licensees.
Delhi excise policy scam: "ED has proved through investigation that the AAP was indulging in corruption under the guise of liquor policy. Along with this, the agency also revealed that Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia were also involved in this," Meenakashi Lekhi said.
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.
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: 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 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.
The CBI has asked Sisodia to be in its headquarters on Monday at 11 a.m. for questioning in the excise policy scam case.
The AAP government in Delhi was forced to withdraw the policy in July after LG VK Saxena recommended to the CBI a probe alleging irregularities in its implementation.
Vijay Nair has been associated with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) since 2014 and used to do fund-raising work for the party.
Delhi excise policy: Kejriwal should explain why his government distributed "revdi" (freebies) of corruption to people close to him and his party, Gaurav Bhatia said.
Delhi Liquor Policy: Manish Sisodia said if the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) does not arrest him within four days, it will be accepted that the sting video is “yet another lie” and part of the conspiracy "hatched at the offices of the BJP and PM Modi”.
Party leaders including state president Adesh Gupta and MPs Manoj Tiwari and Ramesh Bidhuri participated in the campaign being conducted outside around 20 metro stations and other prominent locations in the national capital.
Liquor Policy: The excise officials also said that the issues and troubles are about to persist for some days but will gradually improve in the coming time.
Delhi excise policy: Arvind Kejriwal claimed the CBI has given an "informal clean chit" to the Delhi deputy chief minister but may arrest him within a week or 10 days under political pressure. Kejriwal also claimed "people don't believe the BJP".
Delhi liquor policy: The CBI had earlier raided the residence of Sisodia in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Excise Policy.
Delhi liquor policy scam: Sisodia is among the 15 people and entities named in an FIR registered by the agency in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Delhi government’s Excise Policy 2021-22.
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