Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 14: In relation to the alleged liquor policy scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at about 25 places in Delhi on Friday. This comes after the investigation agency conducted raids at 35 locations last week in Hyderabad, Punjab, and Delhi-NCR.
More than 120 searches have been undertaken by the ED so far in this case, and Sameer Mahandru, a liquor industry executive and the managing director of liquor producer Indospirit, was detained last month in connection with the case.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids about 25 locations in the national capital in the Delhi Excise Policy money laundering case investigation. Details awaited. pic.twitter.com/skJNajaK2v
— ANI (@ANI) October 14, 2022
After Delhi LG VK Saxena suggested a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation into the suspected irregularities in the implementation of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021–2022, the liquor programme came under scrutiny. In the case, he had also suspended 11 excise officials.
The Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, and a few other Delhi government bureaucrats were listed as defendants in a FIR that gave rise to the money laundering case involving the liquor policy. The CBI is looking into whether the policy helped the liquor cartels.
The Arvind Kejriwal administration repealed the Delhi Excise Policy, which had been in effect since November 17 of last year, in July of this year after a CBI investigation into its execution.
