CBI files supplementary chargesheet against 5 in Delhi excise scam

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a second supplementary chargesheet before a court in Delhi against five accused including the Director of Chariot Productions Media Pvt Ltd. in an ongoing investigation in an alleged excise scam case, the ANI reported on Thursday.

In a statement, the CBI said that a case was registered on August 17 in 2022 against the then Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and others including then Commissioner (Excise), then Deputy Commissioner (Excise), then Assistant Commissioner (Excise), all of GNCTD, Delhi; 10 liquor licences, their associates and unknown others on a reference from MHA(GOI) related to alleged irregularities in framing and implementation of the excise policy of GNCTD, Delhi, according to the ANI.

It was further alleged that irregularities were committed including modifications in the Excise Policy, extending undue favours to the licences, waiver and reduction in licence fee, an extension of L-1 license without approval etc. It was also alleged that Illegal gains on the count of these acts were diverted to concerned public servants by private parties by making false entries in their books of accounts, the ANI reported.

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Searches were earlier conducted at various locations including in Delhi, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, and Bengaluru which led to the recovery of incriminating documents and articles, digital records etc.

During the investigation, several accused were also arrested. Earlier, a chargesheet was filed in November 2022 against seven accused including then Deputy Commissioner(Excise), then Assistant Commissioner (Excise) and private persons and a supplementary chargesheet was filed in April 2023 against four accused including then Deputy Chief Minister, GNCTD of Delhi and private persons, as per the ANI.

During further investigation, the alleged role of said accused was found in respect of the transfer of ill-gotten money amounting to Rs. 44.54 crore(approx) to Goa through Hawala channel.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Friday the bail pleas of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia in the Delhi excise policy case being probed by the CBI and the money-laundering matter arising out of it.

According to the cause list uploaded on the apex court website, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M Trivedi is slated to hear his petitions challenging the separate orders of the Delhi High Court which refused to grant him bail in these cases.

(with ANI inputs)