'South Lobby', Bribes & Profits: Amid Manish Sisodia's Arrest, Delhi Liquor Scam in 5 Points
News 18The CBI Sunday arrested Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with alleged corruption in the now-scrapped excise policy relating to the sale of alcohol. The CBI had found that profit margins of liquor wholesalers were increased from five per cent to 12 per cent in the new excise policy on the insistence of the ‘South Lobby‘, a coterie of politicians and liquor businessmen who allegedly swung the policy in their favour. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, arrested by CBI yesterday, to be produced in Court todayHow will this arrest affect #AAP? It is alleged that the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP.