Delhi Excise Policy Case: ED Files Supplementary Charge Sheet, Sisodia Not Named

The ED has filed the supplementary charge sheet against Raghav Magunta, Rajesh Joshi, Gautam Malhotra, and firms linked to them.

Manish Sisodia, who is still behind bars, is yet to be named in a charge sheet related to the case.

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday submitted an additional charge sheet in a Delhi excise policy scam-related money laundering case before a local court. The ED is yet to file the charge sheet against former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and businessman Amandeep Singh Dhal in the Delhi excise policy case.

The agency's equivalent of a charge sheet, the second supplementary Prosecution Complaint, has been filed against Raghav Magunta, Rajesh Joshi, Gautam Malhotra, and firms linked to them.

Special Judge Vikas Dhull has posted the charge sheet before the relevant judge for consideration on April 14.

Raghav Magunta was arrested on February 6 by the Enforcement Directorate as part of a money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy Case. Raghav is the son of YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivas Reddy.

The case was launched based on a CBI FIR. Earlier in February, ED also detained Gautam Malhotra, the son of former SAD MLA from Punjab Deep Malhotra, and Rajesh Joshi, who is the director of an advertising firm called Chariot Productions Media Pvt Ltd.

The ED said that the father and son combination was part of the 'South Group,' a cartel of booze dealers, wholesalers, and producers formed as part of the now-defunct Delhi excise regime. Former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was also arrested in the Delhi excise policy case.

Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the CBI on the bail plea of former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia challenging a trial court order, denying him bail. The high court sought the CBI's response on the plea and listed the matter for hearing on April 20. Sisodia had moved the high court, challenging the trial court order denying bail to him in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case related to alleged irregularities in the Delhi liquor policy.