Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Friday reserved an order on the Enforcement Directorate plea seeking 10-day custodial interrogation of former Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia in the excise policy scam case.
Reacting to Delhi's former minister Manish Sisodia's arrest by the Central agencies in connection with alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped liquor policy, Jailed businessman Sukesh Chandrashekhar on Friday said that the next arrest will be of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramachandra Pillai on Friday moved Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court through an application seeking to retract his statement given to Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Excise Policy case.
"Wherever there is a complaint of corruption, Central agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate do their work. Probe agencies carry out an investigation in such matters, "Aruna said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case, after hours of questioning at Tihar Jail.
President Murmu on Tuesday appointed Atishi and Bharadwaj as ministers in the Delhi cabinet on the advice of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, with effect from the date they are sworn in, stated Ministry of Home Affairs.
AAP leader Manish Sisodia was arrested on February 26 in an ongoing investigation of a case related to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD).
"In Kavitha's issue, I have been maintaining that this case is nothing but political vendetta and the case was registered after a BJP MP made allegations," he said.
The Bharatiya Rashtriya Samiti (BRS) came down heavily on the Centre after the Enfrocement Directorate (ED) summoned MLC K Kavitha in connection with its ongoing probe of the Delhi excise policy case, saying that the central probe agencies have become an extended arm of the BJP.
BRS MLC and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's daughter, K Kavitha, on Wednesday arrvied in the national capital after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned her in connection with the ongoing probe into the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
Annamalai said that the Congress terms the Delhi excise policy as a "big scam" while its ally in Tamil Nadu, DMK stands in support of the "tainted AAP Minister of Delhi".