INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Manish Sisodia, the former deputy chief minister of Delhi, was remanded to judicial custody up until March 20 in connection with
an import tax fraud case, based on the order of a Delhi court on Monday
This choice was made after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) stated that it did not require the custody of the senior Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) leader at this time.Sisodia was produced prior to unique judge MK Nagpal on expiry of his seven-day custodial interrogation
permitted by the court earlier.At the start, the counsel for CBI submitted before the court the investigative agenchy was not seeking his
custody today which it might do later.The CBI accused AAP supporters of politicising the matter
An application to send out the accused to judicial custody has actually been filed
It is submitted that the CBI custody is no longer required and the very same might be sought later, if required
In view of submission made, the implicated is sent out to JC till March 20, the court said.It allowed Sisodia to bring the Bhagavad Gita,
spectacles, medication etc
to jail while directing the Tihar jail authorities to consider his ask for being allowed to do Vipassana meditation.The CBI had actually
apprehended Sisodia recently in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and execution of the now-scrapped alcohol policy for
2021-22.(With inputs from PTI)
