Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Monday Manish Sisodia’s judicial custody in the Enforcement Directorate case of excise policy matter till May 23. This comes after ED on Saturday submitted before the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi that due to activities of the present accused Manish Sisodia as Excise Minister, a proceed of the crime of Rs 622 crores was generated in the case related to the excise policy, reported news agency ANI.
Meanwhile, the court listed the supplementary chargesheet filed against AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia for consideration on May 10. The court also asked the ED to file the soft copy of the supplementary chargesheet on CD/DVD/Pen drive by May 8.
The ED on Thursday filed a 2,000-page chargesheet against jailed former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia for the first time.
Sisodia was arrested by the ED in this case on March 9 from Tihar Jail and he is currently in judicial custody. The Aam Aadmi Party leader was first arrested by the CBI, which is also probing the case.
This was he fourth supplementary and overall fifth chargesheet or prosecution complaint filed in the case by the ED before a designated special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi, reported PTI.
The agency has called Sisodia a “key conspirator” in this case. It had alleged, in the previous chargesheets, that the liquor policy ‘scam’ was a “conspiracy” undertaken by some of the big political leaders of the AAP and the so called ‘South Group’ comprising BRS leader K Kavitha, YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy and others who “used” proxies and dummies to conceal their involvement.
Sisodia has also been accused of destroying evidence, such as crushing his cell phones and changing SIMs multiple times.
