New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today the bail pleas of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. According to a report by news agency PTI, the cause list uploaded on the website of the top court stated that a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M Trivedi is scheduled to hear the petitions challenging the Delhi High Court order that denied him bail in both Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) cases pertaining to the now-scrapped excise policy of the Delhi government.
According to the report, earlier on July 10, a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud had agreed to hear the petitions of the former Delhi deputy chief minister on July 14.
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, representing Manish Sisodia, had urged the apex court to take them up for hearing as the senior AAP leader's wife was seriously ill and hospitalised, PTI reported.
It is to be noted that Sisodia was first arrested by the CBI on February 26 for his alleged role in the excise policy “scam” and has been in custody since then. The Delhi High Court has already denied him bail in the CBI case on May 30.
He was again arrested on March 9 in the case lodged by Enforcement Directorate and is presently in judicial custody.
According to the CBI and the ED, irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy and undue favours were extended to licence holders. The Delhi government implemented the excise policy on November 17, 2021, but scrapped it at the end of September 2022 amid allegations of corruption.