Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, April 6: The Delhi High Court on Thursday sent notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over Manish Sisodia’s application for bail in the case involving the Delhi excise policy. Sisodia is a former deputy chief minister of Delhi and a prominent member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
The investigative agency was ordered by Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma to provide its response within two weeks.
“Everyone except me has been granted bail in this case. I am requesting for the shortest possible date in the case,” Sisodia’s counsel Senior Advocate Dayan Krishnan said.
“Issue notice. Let reply be filed positively within two weeks. Copy to be given to the other side as well,” the Court ordered.
On April 20, it re-posted the matter for additional review. On March 31, a Delhi trial court denied Sisodia’s request for bail.
The former excise minister allegedly played the most significant and crucial part in the criminal conspiracy relating to the purported Delhi Excise Policy case, according to a detailed judgement by special CBI judge MK Nagpal.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained Sisodia on February 26 in connection with the liquor policy issue. He was then detained on March 9 by the ED.
Sisodia and other AAP members are accused of conspiring to give liquor licences to certain retailers in exchange for bribes.
