Delhi Liquor Policy Case: Manish Sisodia's Judicial Custody In CBI Case Extended By 14 Days

Delhi Liquor Policy Case: AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia is presently on ED remand till March 22. His judicial custody in the CBI case has now been extended.

Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court extended the judicial custody of AAP leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia by 14 days in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case, news agency ANI reported.

He is presently on Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand till March 22.

This update comes as BRS MLC K Kavitha is being quizzed at the ED office in the second round of questioning in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. 

In a recent hearing, the ED claimed before the Delhi court that Manish Sisodia was involved in "large-scale destruction of digital evidence to impede investigation" into the Delhi excise policy case and had changed and destroyed 14 phones, news agency PTI reported.

The CBI arrested Sisodia on February 26, the ED then arrested him on March 9 in the Tihar jail. The CBI case is about alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped policy.

The ED is probing money laundering charges against the AAP leader.

The ED application before Special Judge M K Nagapal claimed that the investigation conducted so far indicated that Sisodia is "actually involved in the activity connected to the acquisition, possession and use of proceeds of crime" and "therefore guilty of the offence of money laundering".

The agency alleged that he had withheld information which is in his "exclusive knowledge" and "extremely relevant to the investigation", as per PTI.

Notably, the CBI filed another FIR against jailed former delhi minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the alleged misuse of an official position and financial impropriety in the government's Feedback Unit (FBU) which was also used for collecting "political intelligence", news agency PTI reported officials as saying.

Already arrested by the CBI in the excise policy case and at present in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate, Sisodia was booked along with five others on Tuesday for alleged criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, forgery, and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, as per PTI's report.

Along with Sisodia, the agency has named 1992-batch IRS officer Sukesh Kumar Jain who was then secretary of vigilance, retired CISF DIG Rakesh Kumar Sinha who was working as special advisor to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and joint director in the Feedback Unit, the report mentioned.