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Last Updated: January 14, 2023, 16:36 IST
Manish Sisodia claimed that nothing was found in his bank locker. (ANI)
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader has been under the agency’s radar in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy for the national capital
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s office as part of “routine investigations,” sources said. The CBI team visited Sisodia’s office at Delhi Secretariat for fetching some files, they added.
आज फिर CBI मेरे दफ़्तर पहुँची है. उनका स्वागत है.इन्होंने मेरे घर पर रेड कराई, दफ़्तर में छापा मारा, लॉकर तलशे, मेरे गाँव तक में छानबीन करा ली.मेरे ख़िलाफ़ न कुछ मिला हैं न मिलेगा क्योंकि मैंने कुछ ग़लत किया ही नहीं है. ईमानदारी से दिल्ली के बच्चों की शिक्षा के लिए काम किया है.— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) January 14, 2023
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader has been under the agency’s radar in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy for the national capital.
आज फिर CBI मेरे दफ़्तर पहुँची है. उनका स्वागत है.इन्होंने मेरे घर पर रेड कराई, दफ़्तर में छापा मारा, लॉकर तलशे, मेरे गाँव तक में छानबीन करा ली.मेरे ख़िलाफ़ न कुछ मिला हैं न मिलेगा क्योंकि मैंने कुछ ग़लत किया ही नहीं है. ईमानदारी से दिल्ली के बच्चों की शिक्षा के लिए काम किया है.— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) January 14, 2023
Sisodia in a tweet in Hindi said, “Today again CBI has reached my office. He is welcome. They raided my house, raided my office, searched my locker, even searched my village. Nothing has been found against me and nothing will be found because I have not done anything wrong. Sincerely worked for the education of the children of Delhi.”
The BJP slammed Sisodia’s statement and termed it a “victim-hood claim.” “If we got ₹1 for every misleading, hyperbolic, over reaction, victim-hood claim of Manish Sisodia & AAP – we would have become millionaires by now!,” BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said in a tweet.
The excise scheme came under the scanner after the Delhi lieutenant governor recommended a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22. The LG had also suspended 11 excise officials. The CBI has also questioned a number of people and arrested businessman Vijay Nair. It also arrested liquor businessman Abhishek Boinpally.
The CBI had previously raided the premises of the deputy chief minister and some Delhi government bureaucrats after filing the case.
The Enforcement Directorate, which is investigating the alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped liquor policy of the Delhi government, had on January 6 filed a supplementary charge sheet against five individuals and seven companies in the case. The individuals named in the charge sheet are Vijay Nair, P Sarath Chandra Reddy, Binoy Babu, Boinpally and Amit Arora.
The ED, however, did not name Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
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