Page 5 - Excise Scam News Today

The police also moved an application seeking court's permission to produce Sisodia only via video conference (VC), after he levelled the allegation

It is alleged that the Delhi governments excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP.

During the probe, the CBI found WhatsApp chats and records of hawala operators, which showed that Singh was allegedly instrumental in the hawala transfers of Rs 17 crore

AAP senior leader and Cabinet minister Atishi said the ED has levelled two allegations that Rs 100 crore kickbacks were received from liquor businessesmen and the money was used in Goa elections

Former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who was arrested on March 9, is currently in judicial custody in the case.

Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia while being produced in Rouse Avenue Court for extension of judicial remand in an Enforcement Directorate (ED) case related to the Excise scam told reporters that "Modi ji won't be able to stop the work of Kejriwal ji in Delhi".

Manish Sisodia lawyers had argued that his custody was no longer required for investigation.

The judge had reserved the order after hearing arguments on Sisodia’s plea seeking relief claiming that his custody was no longer required for investigation.

The Rouse Avenue Court on Friday dismissed the bail plea of Delhi's former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case related to the Excise scam stating that "this case of economic offences has serious repercussions upon the general public and society at large as the evidence collected during investigation speaks volumes of his involvement in the commission of the said offence".

A court in Delhi is likely to deliver on April 28 its order on the bail application of former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.