‘Eligible for bail as ED could not prove money reached me,’ Manish Sisodia tells Delhi court

Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who has been in jail since February 2023 on allegations of money laundering in connection with the liquor policy case, told the Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday that he is eligible for bail as the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation have not been able to trace any proceeds of crime to him, The Indian Express reported.

This was on the same day that the Supreme Court granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh in the case.

Sisodia, who is named as a “key conspirator” in the case, told the court that it would not serve any purpose to keep him in jail any further, reported PTI. He is alleged to have rejigged Delhi’s excise policy for the benefit of certain parties and causing hundreds of crores of losses to the public exchequer.

“There is no loss to the government exchequer,” advocate Mohit Mathur, representing the Aam Aadmi Party leader, told the court on Tuesday. “There is no loss to any individual. None of us who are consumers have been cheated of anything.”

Mathur argued that on the contrary the Delhi government’s revenue had increased after the now-scrapped excise policy was implemented in November 2021.

Sisodia was arrested on February 26, 2023, by the Central Bureau of Investigation....

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