New Delhi: In a twist to the Delhi liquor policy case, the CBI on Friday filed its first charge-sheet, excluding the name of Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia who was the accused no 1 in the list of the central probe agency.
News agency PTI reported that Manish Sisodia is not mentioned in the charge-sheet.
Vijay Nair, Abhishek Boinpally, Sameer Mahendru, Arun Ramchandra Pillai, Mootha Gautham, and two government employees — Kuldeep Singh, a former deputy commissioner of the excise department, and Narender Singh, a former assistant commissioner—have all been charged by the CBI.
The Rouse Avenue Court received the charging sheet.
Reacting to the chargesheet, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said: “Manish’s name is not in the CBI charge sheet. The whole case is fake. Nothing was found in the raid. 800 officers found nothing in the investigation for 4 months. Manish gave hope of a good future to crores of poor children of the country through the education revolution. I am sorry that a conspiracy was hatched to defame such a person by implicating him in a false case.”
The CBI can submit an additional charge sheet against Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, in the upcoming days.
“Arun Ramchandra Pillai used to collect undue pecuniary advantage from Mahendru for onward transmission to the accused public servant through Vijay Nair. Arjun Pandey once collected a huge cash amount of about Rs 2-4 crore from Mahendru on behalf of Nair,” the CBI’s chargeet was quoted by IANS in its report.
Sisodia is now the primary suspect in the FIR filed by the CBI. Sections 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) and 477-A (Falsification of Accounts) of the IPC are the subject of the FIR filed by the CBI.
Sisodia is accused of giving liquor industry executives an exemption worth Rs 30 crore. The licence holders reportedly received extensions at their discretion. By breaking excise laws, the policy regulations were created.
