Excise case: Delhi court to consider CBI charge sheet against Kejriwal on Aug 12

A Delhi court on Tuesday posted for August 12 a matter to decide whether to take cognisance of a charge sheet filed by the CBI against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in alleged excise policy scamrelated money laundering caseSpecial judge Kaveri Baweja posted the matter after noting that the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI has not submitted the documents supporting the charge sheetConcluding its probe in the alleged Delhi Excise Policy scam the CBI on Monday filed its final charge sheet in the case against Kejriwal and othersThe CBI earlier filed one main charge sheet and four supplementaries in the case in which former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia Telangana MLC K Kavitha and others have also been chargedThe agency said the one filed on Monday was its final charge sheet in the caseTDP MP and liquor businessman Magunta Sreenivasalu Reddy met Kejriwal on March 16 2021 in his office at the Delhi Secretariat and requested him to provide support in his liquor business in the national capital by tweaking the Excise Policy 202122 which was then in the making the agency said in its charge sheet against KavithaKejriwal assured support to Reddy and asked him to contact Kavitha as she was working with his team on the Excise Policy of Delhi the CBI allegedKejriwal in turn allegedly told Reddy to provide funds to his political party Aam Aadmi Party AAP it had allegedThe CBI also alleged that kickbacks of around Rs 90100 crore were paid in advance to some politicians of the ruling AAP in Delhi and other public servants by some persons in the liquor business from south India through coaccused Vijay Nair Abhishek Boinpally and Dinesh Arora to tweak the Excise Policy for 202122The agency alleged that these kickbacks are found to have been returned to them subsequently out of the profit margins of wholesalers holding L1 licences through different modes like issuance of excess credit notes bank transfers and outstanding amounts left in accounts of the companies controlled by some conspirators from the South lobbyThe CBI had alleged a cartel was formed between three stakeholders of the said policy liquor manufacturers wholesalers and retailers by violating provisions and against the spirit of the policyAll the conspirators allegedly played active roles in achieving the illegal objectives of the said criminal conspiracy It resulted in huge losses to the exchequer and undue pecuniary benefits to the public servants and other accused involved in the conspiracy the CBI had allegedThis 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