Excise Case: Manish Sisodia to be produced before court at 2 pm, ED seeks 10 days remand

The Rouse Avenue Court granted the Enforcement Directorate (ED) permission to bring Delhi’s former Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia before it at 2 p.m. today.

The ED detained Sisodia on Thursday in connection with a money laundering case involving Excise policy. He was apprehended while in Judicial custody in Tihar Prison, where he was being held in a CBI case. On Friday, Special Judge MK Nagpal granted the ED’s request for Sisodia’s appearance in court. The court also noted that the ED is asking for a 10-day remand of Sisodia.

Court noted that this is an application filed by ED through Advocate Naveen Kumar Matta under 267 CrPC seeking production and remand of accused Manish Sisodia for a period of 10 days.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case, after hours of questioning at Tihar Jail.

Sisodia was arrested by the CBI in the liquor policy case on February 26 and was sent to 14-day judicial custody on March 6. The ED also made another arrest in the case earlier, taking Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai into its custody.

The ED summoned Bharatiya Rashtriya Samiti (BRS) MLC and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha for questioning in connection with the liquor policy issue on Thursday.

The CBI had previously arrested Sisodia as part of its continuing probe into suspected irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the National Capital Territory of Delhi’s excise policy (GNCTD). The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi committed him to Judicial Custody until March 20.