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New Delhi. The judicial custody of former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP leader Manish Sisodia has been extended in the case related to excise policy. Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court (Court ) has extended Sisodia’s judicial custody till May 12. Earlier, on April 17, the court had extended Sisodia’s custody for 10 days till April 27. After completion of this, the court extended the judicial custody while hearing the case. Sisodia, who was kept in judicial custody in the Excise Policy case, had also submitted a bail petition in the court, citing his wife’s ill health and his son being abroad.
Sisodia’s wife is suffering from ‘autoimmune disorder’ and has been admitted to a private hospital here. Seema Sisodia, 49, has been admitted to the neurology department of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital and is being examined.
He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a severe autoimmune disease, in 2000. He is being treated in a private hospital for the last 23 years. It is generally believed that the effects of the disease intensify with the passage of time and other factors such as increase in physical and emotional stress.
Manish Sisodia was taken into custody by the CBI after a long interrogation from 26 February in the alleged Excise Policy case of Delhi. Manish is currently lodged in Tihar Jail. The ED is probing money laundering in the liquor policy case.
In this case, on April 25, the CBI filed a supplementary charge sheet in the Rouse Avenue Court, in which the name of former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia has been included for the first time.
In the Delhi government’s Excise Policy for 2021-22, some dealers were benefited for giving licenses to liquor traders, who allegedly paid bribes for this. This policy was later repealed.
