The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) on Sunday focused Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart and occasion colleague Bhagwant Mann linking them to the alleged liquor rip-off within the nationwide Capital.
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala mentioned that the rip-off doesn’t cease at former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia however goes as much as Kejriwal and Mann. His remark got here after a particular court docket on Friday denied bail to Sisodia stating that “there was additionally nothing obvious on report to deduce or present that Manish Sisodia’s arrest, on this case, was unlawful or violative.”
“Why did the court docket refuse to provide reduction to Manish Sisodia, accused within the liquor rip-off? Manish Sisodia and firm have obtained a bribe of ₹100 crore and this has been verified by the court docket,” Poonawalla informed reporters in Delhi. “Manish Sisodia was not an sincere particular person however a corruption planner,” he mentioned.
“Nonetheless, the Delhi liquor rip-off just isn’t restricted to Sisodia however the prime members within the Delhi authorities are concerned in it and that is what the court docket says. Which means this entire rip-off was activated after discussing with the best particular person within the authorities beforehand. As a result of the choice taken by the GoM and the Cupboard can not occur with out the approval of the chief minister, and this isn’t a pure insinuation however a pure implication,” he added.
Concentrating on Mann, he alleged {that a} liquor wholesaler was allegedly pressured to give up his license by utilizing the Punjab excise division because the businessman had curiosity in that state additionally.
There was no speedy response from the AAP.
Sisodia was arrested by the Central Burau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the ongoing investigation of the case associated to alleged irregularities within the Delhi Excise Coverage 2021-22, which has now been scrapped.
Dismissing his bail plea on Friday, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court docket mentioned that the “proof collected to this point by the CBI not solely reveals the applicant’s energetic participation within the above legal conspiracy but additionally reveals the prima facie fee of some substantive offences of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act by him.”