CBI files supplementary chargesheet against former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia in excise policy case | Delhi News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the excise policy case, officials said on Tuesday.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26; however, the CBI did not file the chargesheet until the 58th day, which may have prevented him from being granted default bail.
In the chargesheet, the agency also lists Hyderabad-based CA Butchi Babu Gorantla, liquor trader Amandeep Singh Dhall, and private citizen Arjun Pandey.
The CBI has invoked IPC 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 201 and 420 besides provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.
In its charge sheet filed before a special CBI court here, the agency said the probe is kept open to look into larger conspiracy and role of other accused in the case.
The CBI had filed the last charge sheet on November 25, 2022.
It is alleged that the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP. The policy was later scrapped.
“It was further alleged that irregularities were committed, including modifications in the excise policy, extending undue favours to the licensees, waiver/reduction in licence fee, the extension of L-1 license without approval etc.
“It was also alleged that illegal gains on the count of these acts were diverted to concerned public servants by private parties by making false entries in their books of accounts,” a CBI spokesperson had said after the FIR was filed on August 17 last year.
(With inputs from PTI)
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26; however, the CBI did not file the chargesheet until the 58th day, which may have prevented him from being granted default bail.
In the chargesheet, the agency also lists Hyderabad-based CA Butchi Babu Gorantla, liquor trader Amandeep Singh Dhall, and private citizen Arjun Pandey.
The CBI has invoked IPC 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 201 and 420 besides provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.
In its charge sheet filed before a special CBI court here, the agency said the probe is kept open to look into larger conspiracy and role of other accused in the case.
The CBI had filed the last charge sheet on November 25, 2022.
It is alleged that the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP. The policy was later scrapped.
“It was further alleged that irregularities were committed, including modifications in the excise policy, extending undue favours to the licensees, waiver/reduction in licence fee, the extension of L-1 license without approval etc.
“It was also alleged that illegal gains on the count of these acts were diverted to concerned public servants by private parties by making false entries in their books of accounts,” a CBI spokesperson had said after the FIR was filed on August 17 last year.
(With inputs from PTI)
