NEW DELHI: After 2 rounds of questioning Manish Sisodia, the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday arrested the former deputy chief minister of Delhi from inside Tihar Jail in connection with its Delhi import tax policy probe.The EDs action came a day prior to a court here is set up to hear Sisodias bail plea in the case registered by the CBI versus him and for which he had actually been remanded in judicial custody.
The company is set to look for custody of the AAP politician for more questioning when it produces him in court on Friday.
Sisodia is Accused No.
1 in the case, according to the CBI FIR which has been the basis for the ED to register an investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The previous deputy CM was jailed by the CBI on February 26.
ED apprehended Sisodia after CBI found no proof: Kejriwal Reacting to Sisodias arrest, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: Manish was very first jailed by the CBI.
It did not find any evidence against him and no cash was discovered in the raids.
The hearing on his bail application is set up tomorrow [Friday] and he would have been released.
Today the ED apprehended him.
They have only one goal - to keep Manish inside at all expenses by producing new fake cases every day.
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Before the ED began questioning Sisodia, the previous deputy CM was questioned by the CBI, both prior to and after they jailed him.
The CBI claimed prior to the court that during the interrogation, Sisodia had actually been evasive and uncooperative.
His secretary, other associates and party functionaries have already tape-recorded their statements with both the CBI and the ED.Sources stated the ED seeks to question Sisodia in custody as he stays evasive in his responses despite being faced with the statements of other implicated in the event that could be vital in figuring out the trail of profits of criminal offense .
The ED has actually currently sent before court in its remand notes and two chargesheets filed previously that Rs 100 crore payoffs were apparently provided to AAP functionaries by the alcohol cartel in Delhi to control the retail and wholesale circulation in the nationwide capital.Manish Sisodia is being kept with wrongdoers in prison: AAPSisodia was also the import tax minister in the AAP government and his then secretary C Arvind, a Danics officer, had tape-recorded statements with the ED supposedly claiming irregularities in finalisation of the excise policy 2021-22.
Arvinds declaration, ED claims, shows that the GoM was supposedly bypassed to settle the excise policy that left enough loopholes in favour of a cartel that was being promoted to benefit from it.Delhi alcohol policy case: ED arrests Manish Sisodia on money laundering charges