Moving ahead in its probe into the now-scrapped excise policy case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia for questioning on Sunday, officials said.
A CBI officer related to the probe told The New Indian, “We have asked Sisodia to appear before the CBI at 11 am on Sunday for questioning in the excise policy case.”
Sisodia also took to Twitter and wrote, “I have been again called by the CBI tomorrow. They have used the full power of CBI, and ED, my home was searched, and they searched my lockers and could not get anything. I have worked for better education of the children. They want to stop that. I have always cooperated in the probe and will keep on doing so.”
The CBI action comes two days after a court here rejected the bail pleas of five accused in the ED’s money laundering case.
The special court rejected the bail applications of Abhishek Bonipally, Vijay Nair, Sharath Chandra Reddy, Benoy Babu and Sameer Mahendru.
Earlier, CBI questioned Sisodia and several others including K Kavitha, daughter of Telangana chief minister and Bharath Rashtra Party leader K Chandrasekhar Rao in connection with the case.
The CBI filed a case on August 17, last year, in response to a complaint filed by Lt Governor Vinai Saxena.
It has named Sisodia, who is an AAP leader, as accused number one in the case, along with his close aide Nair, who is also the former CEO of Mumbai-based entertainment and event management company Only Much Louder, besides 13 private people across Lucknow, Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Karnataka, which include liquor firms Brindco and Indospirit.
In August last year, the agency carried out searches at several locations, including the premises of Sisodia. Even so, ED had carried out searches at over 189 locations in connection with the case.