High Court Rejects Manish Sisodia's Bail Request, He'll Move Supreme Court
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It is alleged that Manish Sisodia formulated and implemented the Excise policy in a way to facilitate monopolisation and cartelisation of the liquor trade in Delhi.
The Delhi High Court today denied bail to former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case on the alleged scam in the national capital's liquor policy. A single-judge bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma, while dismissing the bail plea, said allegations against Manish Sisodia are serious. Mr Sisodia will go to the Supreme Court against this high court order, sources said.
The high court, while pronouncing its verdict on the bail plea, said Mr Sisodia is an influential man and the possibility that witnesses could be influenced if he is released on bail cannot be ruled out.
Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court, taking cognisance of a supplementary charge sheet filed by the CBI, had earlier extended the judicial custody of the Aam Aadmi Party leader till June 1 and directed the jail authorities to consider providing the politician a chair and a table along with books inside the prison.
The CBI case is related to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD). It is alleged that Manish Sisodia formulated and implemented the Excise policy in a way to facilitate monopolisation and cartelisation of the liquor trade in Delhi.
