New Delhi: Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking interim bail in the Delhi Excise Policy case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma asked the CBI to make efforts to file the status report in the matter by Thursday so that the plea can be heard along with Sisodia’s regular bail plea, listed for the same day.
Sisodia has sought interim bail in view of his wife’s medical condition.
A trial court in Delhi had rejected Sisodia’s bail plea on March 31.
In a detailed order, special CBI judge MK Nagpal had held that, prima facie, the former Excise Minister played the a vital role in the criminal conspiracy in the alleged Delhi Excise Policy scam.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26. Subsequently, he was arrested by the ED on March 9.
It has been alleged that Sisodia and other members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) connived to grant liquor licenses to certain traders in exchange for bribes.
The central agencies’ case is that the Excise Policy was tweaked and the profit margins were changed in a manner that benefited certain traders and kickbacks were received in exchange for the same.
