New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia's plea seeking interim bail for six weeks will be heard by the Delhi High Court on Monday. The case in question relates to money laundering arising from the alleged excise policy scam.
Sisodia, who was arrested on March 9, has sought release on a temporary basis on the ground of being the only caretaker of his ailing wife. His plea for regular bail in the matter is pending before the high court.
Notably, the Delhi excise policy was implemented by the AAP government on November 17, 2021, but it was scrapped at the end of September last year amid allegations of corruption.
Here are the top points about Sisodia's interim bail request:
- Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma will pronounce the verdict on the interim bail plea.
- The verdict was reserved on Saturday when Sisodia's lawyer had claimed that pursuant to the court's directions passed on Friday, Sisodia was taken in custody to meet his wife earlier in the day but the latter's health condition deteriorated and she was taken to the LNJP Hospital before he could reach home.
- The former Delhi deputy chief minister is currently in judicial custody in the case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
- The ED has opposed the plea on the grounds of the possibility of evidence tampering.
- The federal agency's lawyer has also claimed that Sisodia's wife has been suffering from a medical condition for the last 20 years and even earlier pleas for interim bail on identical grounds were withdrawn by the former minister.
- Earlier, on May 30, the court had dismissed Sisodia's bail plea in the excise policy scam case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), saying he is an influential person and the allegations against him are very serious in nature.
- In the CBI case, the high court has kept the interim bail plea pending for July.