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On July 4, the Delhi High Court rejected Sisodia’s bail plea in the ED case.
Former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia is in jail for the last 139 days in the liquor policy case. His bail plea is to be heard in the Supreme Court today.
Manish had filed a petition for bail in the Supreme Court on 6 July. Supreme Court Justice Sanjeev Khanna and Bela M Trivedi’s bench will hear Manish’s bail application.
Earlier, on July 3, the Delhi High Court had refused to grant bail to Manish. On the other hand, the Rouse Avenue Court refused to grant bail to Manish on 31 March.
Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 this year. He is in Tihar Jail. On June 3, the High Court granted Manish bail for 7 hours to meet his ailing wife.
ED seals 2 properties of Manish Sisodia
Both CBI and ED agencies are probing against Manish. CBI arrested on charges of corruption. And the ED is probing money laundering. ED had attached properties worth 52.24 crores on July 7. In this, 2 properties of former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and his wife Seema Sisodia have been sealed. His bank balance of Rs 11 lakh has also been put on hold.
Apart from this, properties of other close relatives of Sisodia including Amandeep Singh Dhall, Rajesh Joshi, Gautam Malhotra have also been attached. ED took this action after arresting businessman Dinesh Arora. Dinesh is considered close to Sisodia.
This picture is from 26 February. When CBI arrested Manish.
What is liquor policy scam
Under the old policy in Delhi, L1 and L10 licenses were given to retail vendors. In this, L1 shops used to run in DDA’s approved market, local shopping center, convenient shopping center, district center and community center.
There were 849 liquor shops in Delhi till the implementation of the new excise policy for liquor on 17 November 2021. Of these, 60% shops were government owned and 40% were private.
The new liquor policy was approved on 17 November
Delhi’s Kejriwal government approved the new liquor policy on 17 November. Under this, government liquor shops were closed in Delhi. To implement the new policy, Delhi was divided into 32 zones.
There were 27 liquor shops in each zone. The ownership of these shops was given under the license issued to the zone. In every ward, 2 to 3 vendors were allowed to sell liquor.
Sisodia accused of waiving tender fees
According to the report submitted to the Lt Governor and CM of Delhi, Sisodia changed the liquor policy without the approval of the Lt Governor. For example, waiving tender license fee of Rs 144.36 crore in the name of Corona epidemic.
It is alleged that this benefited the liquor contractors. It has been alleged in the report that the commission received from this was used by the Aam Aadmi Party in the Punjab assembly elections. After all the flaws in the new liquor policy, the new liquor policy was withdrawn within four months.
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