Manish Sisodia released from jail after getting bail in liquor policy case
The Supreme Court, while granting him bail earlier on Friday, observed that the Aam Aadmi Party leader had been deprived of the right to a speedy trial.
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia was released from jail on Friday, hours after he was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the Delhi liquor policy case. He had been in jail for nearly 17 months.
The former Delhi deputy chief minister was arrested in February 2023 by the Central Bureau of Investigation. The Enforcement Directorate arrested him in the same case in March 2023. He was in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
“Ever since this order came in the morning, every fibre of my being feels indebted to Babasaheb [BR Ambedkar],” Sisodia told supporters gathered outside the jail.
“I am unable to understand how I will repay this debt,” he said. “Babasaheb had decided at that time that if a dictatorial government puts an innocent person in jail, the Constitution will protect him.”
Earlier in the day, a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan granted him bail in 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.
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.
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तमाम साज़िशों और षड्यंत्रों को ध्वस्त करके दिल्ली की शिक्षा क्रांति के नायक @msisodia जी आए जेल से बाहर ????#ManishKiBailSachKiJeet pic.twitter.com/FANLqVEu6s— AAP (@AamAadmiParty)...
