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Excise policy case: ED names Manish Sisodia in supplementary chargesheet

: The Enforcement Directorate has named former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia as an accused in a 2,371-page chargesheet in connection with the now-scrapped excise policy case. In its fifth chargesheet, filed before a Prevention of Money Laundering Act court in Delhi, the probe agency named Mr. Sisodia the 29th accused in the alleged liquor scam. ‘Key conspirator’ The senior AAP leader has been called a key conspirator also by the Central Bureau of Investigation, which arrested Mr. Sisodia on February 26 in its own probe into the alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy. On March 31, a court here had dismissed Mr. Sisodia’s bail plea, saying he was “prima facie the architect” and had played the “most important and vital role” in the criminal conspiracy related to alleged payment of advance kickbacks of ₹90-₹100 crore meant for him and his colleagues in the Delhi government.

The Hindu

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