A Delhi court denied bail to Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia in the excise policy-linked money laundering case on Tuesday.
Special CBI Judge Kaveri Baweja, in the Rouse Avenue Court, dismissed the former deputy chief minister’s bail for the second time in both the ED and CBI cases. Presently, Sisodia is in judicial custody — in Tihar Jail — in both the cases.
Sisodia will approach the High Court against the Delhi court’s order, dismissing his bail applications, AAP said.
The dismissal of his bail pleas come after Judge Baweja reserved the verdict in the applications on April 20. The AAP leader had also moved interim bail pleas in both cases to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. However, Sisodia’s counsel told the court that the plea has become infructuous as the regular bail plea is reserved.
Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on February 26, 2023, for his alleged role in the “scam”. Then the AAP leader resigned from the Delhi cabinet on February 28.
On March 9, 2023, the ED arrested the former deputy chief minister in a money laundering case stemming from the CBI FIR.
The Supreme Court, last month, had rejected Sisodia’s curative petition challenging the top court’s decision to reject his bail plea in liquor policy scam case.
A bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud, comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and SVN Bhatti had dismissed the curative petitions observing that “no case is made out”.
“We have gone through the Curative Petitions and the connected documents. In our opinion, no case is made out within the parameters indicated in the decision of this Court in Rupa Ashok Hurra vs Ashok Hurra,” the bench observed.
In December 2023, the apex court had dismissed Sisodia’s pleas seeking review of its October 30 verdict dismissing his bail petitions in the money laundering cases related to the alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy.
The CBI as well as the ED had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy, undue favours were extended to the license holders, license fee was waived or reduced and licences were extended without the competent authority’s approval.
Earlier this month, the former deputy chief minister of Delhi wrote another letter from Tihar Jail to the people of his constituency (Patparganj). He had compared his imprisonment with atrocities committed by Britishers on freedom fighters and asserted he would soon walk out of jail.
“See you soon outside. Long live the education revolution, love you all. In the last year, I missed everyone. Everyone worked together very honestly. Just as everyone fought during the time of independence, similarly we are fighting for education and schools today. Despite the dictatorship of the Britishers, the dream of independence came true. Similarly, one day every child will get a proper and good education,” he wrote.
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