A Delhi court on Monday remanded former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia to 14 days ’ judicial guardianship in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case over alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped excise policy. CBI submitted before the Court that they may seek further police guardianship at an after stage as the disquisition in the case is continuing. Sisodia was arrested by CBI on February 26 in connection with the case and was produced before the Rouse Avenue court on the coming day.
The CBI guardianship was further extended for a period of 2 days on Saturday. CBI till date has had 7 days guardianship of Sisodia out of 15 days permitted as per law. CBI had also stated in the court that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is trying to give political colour to the matter by giving political statements in the media. The court transferred Sisodia to judicial guardianship till March 20 and allowed him to carry a dupe of Srimad Bhagavad Gita, a pen, journal and his specs along with specified medicine.
Sisodia also requested that he be lodged inside a Vipassana cell, stating that contemplation shops were conducted inside the jail in history. “There are people who stay in Vipassana cells. I request to be lodged there,” Sisodia told the court. The judge asked the jail supervisor to consider the request. During the hail, the CBI prosecutor contended that substantiations were scarified in this case. “In the future, we will seek police guardianship, and see the conduct outside the court. The media and their (AAP) sympathisers are politicising the matter. He (Sisodia) isn’t supporting the disquisition. The substantiations to be brazen, they’re under apprehension and alarmed. The media is giving (the arrest) political colour.
They’re fighting the arguments. Entire proceedings are as per law but they’re politicising all these effects. Bytes are running in the media before the order has come,” the CBI prosecutor told the court. Sisodia has been indicted of corruption in the Delhi liquor policy that was scrapped after Lt Governor V K Saxena called for a CBI inquiry. The allegation was that the government bent the rules and handed overdue benefits to liquor vendors.