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Even as Rouse Avenue Court on Monday sent former Delhi deputy chief minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia to judicial custody till March 20 in Delhi excise policy case, his counsel demanded that the leader be given a diary, pen, Bhagavad Gita and some medicines during stay in the jail. The former education minister of Delhi government has also sought permission to be remanded in the in the vipassana (a type of meditation) cell.
The Court granted permission for Sisodia to carry a pair of spectacles, a diary, a pen, and a copy of The Bhagavad Gita during the 14 day judicial custody. The court further directed the jail superintendent to consider the request of keeping Sisodia in the meditation cell.
He was produced before special judge M K Nagpal as his seven-day CBI custodial interrogation ended. The CBI last week arrested Sisodia in connection with alleged corruption in the drafting and implementation of the now-scrapped liquor policy for 2021-22.
The court allowed Sisodia to have medicines prescribed in his Medico-Legal case (MLC) conducted by the CBI officials.
Sisodia, who was arrested by the CBI in a case pertaining to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), will be lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia’s judicial custody was extended till 20 March in the Delhi Excise policy ‘scam’. He was arrested on 26 February, after an eight hour interrogation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He resigned from his Deputy Chief Minister Post for the Delhi Government on 28 February.
On Monday, Sisodia was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court which sent the former education minister of Delhi to a 14-day judicial custody. The counsel appearing for CBI said that the CBI was not looking for a further remand but, “in the next 15 days we might seek it.”
