Advocates Rajat Bharadwaj and Mohd Irshad talked about the matter earlier than the bench led by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and requested for pressing itemizing of the matter.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and former Deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia moved the Delhi High Court on Thursday difficult the trial court docket order refusing him bail in the excise policy case being investigated by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Advocates Rajat Bharadwaj and Mohd Irshad talked about the matter earlier than the bench led by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and requested for pressing itemizing of the matter.
Noting the submissions, the bench stated, “Let the concerned judge go through the file if your papers are in order by 12.30 pm today, we will have it tomorrow.”
On April 30, the Rouse Avenue Court dismissed the bail petitions of Sisodia for the second time in the case and stated, “…This court is not inclined to admit the Applicant to Bail, either regular or interim, at this stage. The application under consideration is accordingly dismissed, “Special Judge Kaveri Baweja additionally stated, “It is apparent that the Applicant individually, and along with different accused have been filing one or the other application /making oral submissions frequently, some of them frivolous, that too on a piecemeal basis, apparently as a concerted effort for accomplishing the shared purpose of causing delay in the matter.”
The court docket additionally added that the interval of incarceration of Benoy Babu and that of the applicant (Manish Sisodia) can’t be equated, significantly in view of the findings in the previous paragraphs of this order that the applicant himself has attributed to the gradual tempo of the proceedings of the case. Sisodia has been in custody since February 26, 2023, after arrest by the CBI.
Thereafter, he was arrested by the ED. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BRS Leader Ok Kavitha had been additionally arrested in the excise policy case.
The ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities had been dedicated whereas modifying the excise policy, undue favours had been prolonged to licence holders, the licence price was waived or decreased and the L-1 licence was prolonged with out the competent authority’s approval.
The beneficiaries diverted “illegal” beneficial properties to the accused officers and made false entries in their books of account to evade detection, the probe companies stated.
As per the allegations, the excise division had determined to refund the earnest cash deposit of about Rs 30 crore to a profitable tenderer towards the set guidelines.
Even although there was no enabling provision, a waiver on tendered licence charges was allowed from December 28, 2021, to January 27, 2022, as a result of COVID-19, the probe company stated and there was an alleged lack of Rs 144.36 crore to the exchequer.
(This story has not been edited by DNA employees and is revealed from ANI)
