Manish Sisodia to be produced before court at 2 pm, ED seeking 10 days remand

The Rouse Avenue Court on Friday allowed the Enforcement Directorate ED to produce Delhi former Deputy Chief Minister and arrested AAP leader Manish Sisodia before it at 2 pm todaySisodia was arrested on Thursday by ED in a money laundering in connection with Excise policy caseHe was arrested during his Judicial custody in Tihar Jail where he was lodged in CBI caseSpecial Judge MK Nagpal on Friday allowed the ED plea seeking the production of Sisodia in the court Court also noted that the ED is seeking 10 days remand of SisodiaCourt 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 daysAlso Read AAP leaders knew Sisodia was going to be arrested Meenakshi LekhiThe Enforcement Directorate ED on Thursday arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case after hours of questioning at Tihar JailSisodia was arrested by the CBI in the liquor policy case on February 26 and was sent to 14day judicial custody on March 6The ED also made another arrest in the case earlier taking Hyderabadbased businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai into its custodyThe ED on Thursday summoned Bharatiya Rashtriya Samiti BRS MLC and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Raos daughter K Kavitha for questioning in the liquor policy caseSisodia was arrested by the CBI earlier in its ongoing investigation of a case related to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of the National Capital Territory of Delhi GNCTD Delhis Rouse Avenue Court sent him to Judicial Custody till March 20ED last year filed its first chargesheet in the case The agency said it has so far undertaken nearly 200 search operations in this case after an FIR was filed taking cognisance of the CBI case registered on the recommendation of Delhis Lieutenant Governor VK SaxenaThe CBI inquiry was recommended on the findings of the Delhi chief secretarys report filed in July showing prima facie violations of the GNCTD Act 1991 Transaction of Business Rules ToBR1993 Delhi Excise Act2009 and Delhi Excise Rules2010 officials had saidIn October the ED had raided nearly three dozen locations in Delhi and Punjab following the arrest of Sameer Mahendru managing director of Delhis Jor Baghbased liquor distributor Indospirit Group in the case and arrested him laterThe CBI filed its first charge sheet in the case earlierThe ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the Excise Policy and undue favours extended to licence holders It was further alleged that the licence fee was waived or reduced and the L1 licence was extended without the competent authoritys approval The beneficiaries diverted illegal gains to the accused officials and made false entries in their books of account to evade detectionFurther it was alleged that the Excise department had decided to refund the Earnest Money Deposit of about Rs 30 crore to a successful tenderer against the set rules Even though there was no enabling provision a waiver on tendered licence fees was allowed from December 28 2021 to January 27 2022 due to Covid19 it was alleged furtherThis allegedly caused a loss of Rs 14436 crore to the exchequer the agencies claimedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever