Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 26: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), has now submitted a charge sheet in the alleged Delhi liquor scam case after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The Delhi government’s excise policy has since been abandoned, but the CBI and ED are both looking into whether it was designed to give booze distributors and producers improper and unlawful favours at the expense of the public coffers.
The ED stated that it was simply filing the charge sheet against Sameer Mahendru for the time being when it filed the document before the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi. Charge sheets against the other defendants will be filed later because the investigation is still ongoing.
The court stated that because the charge sheet presented by the central agency contains a significant number of documents, it might take some time for the court to take notice of it while asking ED to deposit a copy of the charge sheet in the court’s registry.
The charge sheet submitted by ED is 3,000 pages long, according to reports.
In the case, the CBI has already filed an FIR against several government employees, officers with the Excise Department, Delhi’s deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and others.
As many as 169 search operations were conducted by the ED earlier this month, and numerous top executives were detained, including the promoter of the liquor company Indospirit, the general manager of the company, and the full-time director and promoter of Aurobindo Pharma.
After taking note of a CBI complaint that mentioned the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister as an accused party in addition to key bureaucrats of the Delhi government and others, the central agency opened a money laundering case in August.
An assistant of Sisodia’s was also the subject of a search by the central agency, which later had him in for questioning at its Delhi office.
