New Delhi: Rouse Avenue Court on Monday sent Delhi's former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia to judicial custody till March 20. Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a corruption case related to the now-scrapped excise policy.
According to news agency ANI, the CBI counsel said that at this stage, the central agency is not seeking further CBI remand of the AAP leader but might seek it in the next 15 days.
Rouse Avenue Court's Special Judge MK Nagpal allowed Manish Sisodia to have medicines prescribed in his medical checkup conducted by CBI officials, ANI reported.
As requested by Sisodia's side, the Court also directed Jail Superintendent to consider the request of keeping the accused in a Vipassana/Meditation cell.
His bail plea will be heard by the court on March 10. He will be produced before the court physically on March 20 when his judicial custody ends.
On Saturday, the court extended Sisodia's CBI custody by two days as the agency sought to confront him with material witnesses.
Special judge M K Nagpal had directed the CBI not to ask him the same questions repeatedly after Sisodia termed it as "mental harassment".
"They are not using third-degree. But sitting for eight to nine hours and answering the same questions again and again, that too is mental harassment," Sisodia said when he was produced before the court on the expiry of his earlier five-day CBI custody, as quoted by news agency PTI.
Notably, the court has ordered that the accused's examination and interrogation happen at a place that has CCTV camera coverage.
The CBI had told the court that Sisodia was confronted with some key witnesses of the prosecution case on certain material aspects. His attitude and behaviour during these confrontations was totally uncooperative and evasive, the CBI said, as reported by PTI.
In his bail application, Sisodia has said that he joined the investigation as and when called for by the central probe agency.
He further said no fruitful purpose would be served by keeping him in custody as all the recoveries have already been made, adding that the other accused persons arrested in this case have already been granted bail.nc