Manish Sisodia’s bail plea in money laundering case adjourned till April 5
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New Delhi: The hearing on AAP leader Manish Sisodia's bail request was postponed by a Delhi judge on Saturday until April 5. Sisodia was detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an excise policy dispute and is facing charges of money laundering.
After Sisodia's lawyer asked for more time to respond to the ED's reply submitted in response to his client's bail plea, Special Judge MK Nagpal adjourned the hearing.
Sisodia’s counsel told the court that he needed some time to make detailed arguments in the matter.
On March 9, the ED arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Sisodia at the Tihar jail, where he was lodged in connection with a separate case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The CBI arrested the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader on February 26 in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy for 2021-22.
The court had on Friday said it would pronounce its order on Sisodia’s bail plea in the CBI case on March 31.
With PTI inputs