Team News Riveting
New Delhi, March 10
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia has been sent to custody remand of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for seven days in the Delhi liquor policy case.
The central agency had sought the 10 days remand to question Sisodia over alleged money laundering in framing the liquor policy that was later scrapped. The ED arrested him on Thursday after questioning him in Tihar jail where he was locked in connection with the case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
His bail request in the CBI case was to be heard today in a special court, but it has been moved to March 21.
The ED today told the special court that it wanted to follow the money trail in the Delhi liquor policy case. The ED said the proceeds of the crime was worth at least Rs 292 crore.
“We have summoned officers. We want to confront them with Sisodia in custody,” the ED’s lawyer said.
Sisodia’s lawyer slammed the ED for considering arrest as a right without going through the due process of law. “It has become a fashion these days that the agencies take arrests as a right. It’s time for the courts to come down heavily on this sense of entitlement,” Mr Sisodia’s lawyer Dayan Krishna said in the special court today.
AAP MP Sanjay Singh today told reporters that the BJP-led centre ignores serious allegations against leaders of their party and those who join them.
