Delhi liquor excise policy case | CBI files supplementary charge-sheet against Manish Sisodia and three others
The HinduThe Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a supplementary charge-sheet against former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and three others in connection with the case related to the now-scrapped liquor excise policy. It was alleged that the excise policy had been modified to extend undue favours to licence holders; licence fee was waived or reduced; and L-1 licence was extended without the competent authority’s permission. As alleged, the then Aam Aadmi Party communication and media in-charge Vijay Nair, on behalf of the party leaders, received ₹100 crore as “kickbacks” in advance from a “South Group”, whose prominent entities were Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC K. Kavitha, and Aurobindo Pharma director P. Sarath Chandra Reddy. Its charge-sheets allege that a part of the alleged kickbacks were diverted through “hawala” channels for the AAP’s poll campaign in the 2022 Goa Assembly election.