Delhi excise policy case: Busy in preparing Delhi Budget, will visit CBI office by February end- Manish Sisodia

New Delhi: Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia who has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), said on Sunday that he has requested a probe agency to shift the date.

The CBI has called Sisodia for questioning in connection with the Delhi excise policy case nearly three months after filing the charge sheet in the case.

Despite the questioning by authorities and a search at his home by CBI last year, he has not been named as an accused in the case since the investigation is still ongoing.

“I will visit the CBI office by the end of February, whenever they (CBI) will call me. Being the finance minister of Delhi, preparing the budget is very important, so I have requested to shift the date,” reported ANI quoting Sisodia.

He also said that he has always cooperated with these agencies.

On Saturday, apparently referring to the centre, Sisodia said that the CBI has been made to go after him because ‘they’ want to stop him from doing ‘good work’ on the education of the children in Delhi.