ED asks for a month’s time complete investigations in liquor policy scam. No relief to Manish Sisodia

The former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia who is still behind bars in a case of money laundering with regard to the new excise liquor policy of Delhi government and the RajyaSabha MP who is out in bail after being in Tihar prison for six months have appeared before the Supreme Court via video conferencing. The enforcement directorate has today submitted the documents of its status report to the apex court. The court was annoyed with ED asking how much more time would the ED be requiring to complete its investigations to reach to a definite conclusion. The ED asked for one more month’s time to complete the investigations said the counsels of Enforcement directorate. The advocates appearing for Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh since we are fully cooperating with the agency the ED should also co-operate in the investigations of documents. According to the news reports the ED accused the AAP government that while formulating the new liquor excise policy a large scale corruption took place. The Central bureau of investigation has while directly accusing Delhi CM as the kingpin of this liquor scam said that several ministers and higher ups are also involved in this scam. It may be recalled that the Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival was arrested in connection with allegedly accepting Rs 100 crores from the South Lobby under PMLA charges on March 21 and send to 11 days ED remand followed by the 14 day judicial custody extended further till 23 rd April. The Delhi CM has approached the Supreme Court challenging his arrest and the hearing is due for 29 April with EF asked to appear before it on the above date. The Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj including Sanjay Singh Rajya Sabha MP have accused the BJP for president’s strategically arresting Kejrival in order to stop him from Campaigning in Delhi and at the pan India level including in Punjab where AAP government functions.