Manish Sisodia gets bail in liquor policy cases filed by CBI, ED
The Supreme Court observed that the former Delhi deputy chief minister had been deprived of the right to a speedy trial.
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia on Friday was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the Delhi liquor policy case, PTI reported. He has been in jail for about 17 months.
The former Delhi deputy chief minister was arrested on February 24, 2023 by the Central Bureau of Investigation. On March 9, 2023, the Enforcement Directorate arrested him in the same case. He is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
On Friday, a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan granted him bail in both the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation cases. The court observed that Sisodia had been deprived of the right to a speedy trial, Live Law reported.
There was “not even a remotest possibility of trial being completed” considering 495 witnesses and thousands of documents spanning lakhs of pages, the bench said.
This was Sisodia’s third bail plea before the Supreme Court after a chargesheet was filed. The bench said that it would not ask the Opposition leader to go back to the trial court once again to seek bail.
“Liberty was given to revive the plea after filing of chargesheet,” the court said, reported Bar and Bench. “Now relegating Sisodia to trial court and then High Court will be like playing a game of snake and ladder. It will be travesty of justice...
