New Delhi: A Delhi court extended ex-deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia's custody for another five days on Friday. This was after the Enforcement Directorate sought a week more to probe allegations against him on the liquor scam, NDTV reported.
Meanwhile, Sisodia argued that the ED had questioned him only for 30 mins to an hour every and therefore, he did not wish to continue inside the jail for longer.
Sisodia was jailed on February 26 after he was arrested by the CBI over alleged corruption linked to the liquor policy case of Delhi. The ED is probing the money-laundering allegations over the case.
When the ED sought more custody, Sisodia wondered before the court what the central probe agency was doing in the past seven months of investigation. Asking for more custody even after these months, they have to show what they got, he argued, through his lawyer.
The lawyer said that he is opposing the extension of Sisodia's custody since ED is carrying out CBI's probe. ED has no power to probe the crime but the proceeds of the crime, the lawyer argued.
The Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that CBI could not find anything against Sisodia, and they were about to let him go, which prompted bringing in another agency to file a new case. It said that "they" wanted to keep Sisodia imprisoned at all costs.
Sisodia has been accused of corruption in a case of liquor policy brought in Delhi, which was scrapped after nine months following Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena's recommended a CBI probe.
The policy was launched in November 2021, and the Kejriwal government in the national capital faces allegations that it gave illegal benefits to liquor licensees.