After Supreme Court's order, 1,768 prisoners including undertrials and convicts who were on parole since COViD pandemic, have surrendered at various jails in the national capital so far, said Delhi Prisons.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet in Delhi's Patiala House Court against three Tihar Jail officials in a 200-crore money laundering case involving Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
TMC leader Anubrata Mondal, who is presently in Tihar Jail in judicial custody in an alleged cattle smuggling case, has moved an application in Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court seeking his transfer to Asansol Correctional Home (West Bengal).
The Rouse Avenue Court on Friday while sending Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia to ED remand said that he is being remanded to custody for a period of 7 days till March 17 for the purposes of his "detailed and extensive interrogation and confrontations".
The act of pro-active destruction of evidence leads to only one inference that Manish Sisodia made conscious efforts to destroy evidence of the offence of money laundering, said Enforcement Directorate while seeking remand of Sisodia in connection with the Delhi excise policy case.
The development comes after Delhi's Rouse Avenue court on Friday granted Enforcement Directorate Manish Sisodia's remand till March 17 in the Excise policy case. ED had arrested Sisodia yesterday after hours of questioning in the Tihar jail where the AAP leader is lodged.
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.
Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia penned a letter to the nation from Tihar Jail. In it, he questions why leaders who have attained positions of power have not established excellent schools and colleges for the youth of the country.