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New Delhi: Former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia was arrested by the Central Investigation Agency, Enforcement Directorate (ED) this evening. The arrest took place inside Tihar Jail No. 1 where the ED team met Manish Sisodia from around 10 am today. was inquiring. Sisodia has been arrested under the money laundering case of ED.
ED has now arrested 12 people in the Excise case, on the basis of their statements Manish Sisodia was interrogated twice by ED and Manish Sisodia was arrested in the second round of questioning today. According to ED sources Manish Sisodia was interrogated Today, questions were also raised about KCR’s daughter’s role in Kavitha’s excise case and kick back of 100 crores and she has been arrested for not giving satisfactory answers to many questions.
Sisodia could not give satisfactory answers to the questions: ED
According to the ED, Sisodia was alleged to have destroyed around 7 mobile phones and SIM cards while drafting the policy, but Sisodia could not give a satisfactory answer when asked about it. ED also mentioned this in its charge sheet. About 7 phones were also bought by Sisodia through his PS Devendra Sharma @ Rinku, about which CBI has questioned Devendra.
According to the allegations, according to the statement of Sisodia’s secretary, Danix Officer C. Arvind, in a statement dated December 7, 2022, CM Arvind confessed that the GOM report was given to him in mid-March last year, when Manish Sisodia told Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Called to K’s house where Satyendar Jain was already present.
CM Arvind confessed that in the report of GOM i.e. Group of Monitors, it was said to give whole sale business to private traders on 12 percent margin, out of which 6 percent commission was to be returned. CM Arvind has made it clear that it was never fixed before in the GOM that the private workers have to pay everything at 12%, he confessed that for the first time he saw such a draft proposal in the GOM, which was handed over to him After preparing the report, it was ordered to prepare one’s own report on the basis of this GOM report.
Tell that today’s Kavitha also had to face ED inquiry but she had cited some of her programs after which now K Kavitha has to appear before ED on March 11. ED will present Sisodia in Delhi court tomorrow from where His further remand will be sought.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has now raised questions on the intention of the Central Government regarding the arrest of Sisodia by the ED. Kejriwal wrote in his tweet, “Manish Sisodia was first arrested by the CBI. CBI did not find any evidence, no money was found in the raid. Tomorrow there is hearing on bail. If Manish was released yesterday, today ED arrested him. They have only one aim – to keep Manish inside at all costs by creating new fake cases every day. The public is watching and the public will answer.”
मनीष को पहले CBI ने गिरफ़्तार किया। CBI को कोई सबूत नहीं मिला, रेड में कोई पैसा नहीं मिला। कल बेल पर सुनवाई है। कल मनीष छूट जाते। तो आज ED ने गिरफ़्तार कर लिया। इनका एक ही मक़सद है – मनीष को हर हालत में अंदर रखना। रोज़ नये फ़र्ज़ी मामले बनाकर। जनता देख रही है। जनता जवाब देगी
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 9, 2023
ED team interrogated Sisodia in Tihar
Significantly, before the arrest, the ED team had interrogated former Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia in Tihar Jail in the Excise Policy case. ED has got permission from the court for 3 days of questioning. Today, the ED had contacted the jail administration for questioning in the jail. On Tuesday too, the ED had questioned Sisodia in the jail.
Two former ministers of the Delhi government – Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain – are under investigation by the ED-CBI on different charges. Both are currently in Tihar Jail. While Sisodia has been arrested in Delhi’s Excise Policy case, Satyendar Jain is lodged in Tihar Jail since May 30 last year in a money laundering case.
Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders, while continuously targeting the BJP-led central government, are counting Sisodia’s contribution when he was the education minister of Delhi. CM Kejriwal tweeted on this issue in the past, targeting PM Modi, “Prime Minister, nothing was found in the raid from Manish Sisodia’s house. He was arrested by applying all sections of CBI, ED. Your party K MLA got so much cash here, he was not arrested? Now don’t you ever talk about fighting corruption. Your mouth doesn’t like it.”
