The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken into custody the Aam Aadmi Party's communication in-charge Vijay Nair and businessman Abhishek Boinpally in connection with the alleged Delhi Excise Policy scam for questioning.
Liquor has been banned in Bihar since April 2016 with severe punishment, up to a 10-year jail term. In March this year, the Liquor Amendment Bill was also passed by the Nitish government and implemented the same from April 1.
One sophisticated pistol with two live cartridges and a huge quantity of foreign liquor have also been recovered from the house of accused persons and two separate cases have been registered under Arms Act & Excise Act.
The Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday reserved the order on the bail petitions moved by Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinpally and Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) communication incharge Vijay Nair in connection with the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
Rewa MP(Member of Parliament) Janardan Mishra has once again kicked up a row. He said, "Either eat gutka, consume liquor, smell thinner, sulesan (a kind of adhesive), or eat iodex but save water".
"The habit of distributing liquor and money is of TRS party. In Huzerabad, I never distributed money or liquor. You can enquire on it. Six times I have become MLA. KCR used to tell that he never distributed money in Siddipet, the same culture continued. However after 2014, it all got changed
Korba police's 'Nijaat' campaign has achieved a milestone in the last four months. Under this campaign, the police arrested 1054 accused so far and confiscated 2022 litres of illicit liquor under the Excise and NDPS Act in the district.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moved a plea in Delhi Court today under 306 Crpc to make businessman Dinesh Arora, an accused, a witness in the Delhi excise policy case.
Baijayant Panda claimed that the AAP leaders, whose names have come up in connection with the liquor scam case, are panicking as "there are money trails, names, dates, places and amounts".
"They got my house raided based on false FIR, searched bank lockers, but found nothing against me. Today, they conducted a raid at my PA's house and when they didn't find anything, they arrested him," he said.
"KCR is an expert in diverting issues. He plans to divert the liquor allegations against his daughter from the public. The affidavit they produced in court is false. The screenplay and direction were all done by KCR," said BJP state President Bandi Sanjay.