The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Benoy Babu, Regional Manager of liquor manufacturing giant Pernod Ricard, facing prosecution in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam also involving AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh.
Aam Aadmi Party MPs staged a protest against the alleged misuse of Central agencies and demanded the release of former minister Manish Sisodia and MP Sanjay Singh.
Meanwhile, the court expressed displeasure with the lawyers to complete the Section 207 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) compliance as soon as possible so that the trial could start of the matter.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met the wife and family members of his former deputy Manish Sisodia at the residence of Minister Atishi and conveyed his Diwali greetings.
Manish Sisodia, arrested in the Delhi Liquor policy case on March 9, came out of Tihar jail on Saturday on a short furlough of six hours to meet his ailing wife.
"I did not expect that such a king of the Scindia family would betray Congress like this. What did not the Congress offer to him? First, they made Bade Maharaja (Madahvrao Scindia) MP from here then former PMs Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi made him a minister, gave respect but Jyotiradit
Sisodia is meeting his wife at the premises, which is currently officially allocated to Delhi Minister Atishi. The same premises were earlier allotted to Sisodia.
Delhi's former Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia has moved an application seeking permission to meet his ailing wife for a period of five days while in custody.
"Yesterday, there was a meeting of MLAs. All MLAs demanded that Arvind Kejriwal should not resign. All the MLAs said that even if he (Kejriwal) is sent to jail, he should run the government from jail but should not resign," said AAP MP Sandeep Pathak.