Delhi Excise Policy Case: Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday summoned Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on April 16 to question him in the Delhi Excise Policy Case. Kejriwal will appear before the CBI on Sunday (April 16) at 11 AM, officials on Friday informed.
Mahendru claims that crores of rupees were given in this case on the orders of Kejriwal
It is alleged that a bureaucrat of the Excise Department, during interrogation in the scam, has given a statement to the CBI that Sisodia had called him to Kejriwal’s house. Satyendar Jain was also there at the same time. As per the statement of the bureaucrat, Sisodia verbally asked him to prepare a draft to increase the commission for liquor traders. It is being claimed that Sameer Mahendru had told the investigating agency that Kejriwal made a video call on Face Time from Vijay Nair’s phone and told him that Vijay Nair is his child. He trusts them. Mahendru claims that crores of rupees were given in this case on the orders of Kejriwal. Which was spent in the Goa elections.
Kejriwal will appear at the agency headquarters at 11 AM
Kejriwal has been asked to be present at the agency headquarters at 11 AM to answer queries of the investigating team, they said. The central probe agency has already arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the case. 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. The policy was later scrapped.
“It was further alleged that irregularities were committed, including modifications in Excise Policy, extending undue favours to the licensees, waiver/reduction in licence fee, the extension of L-1 license without approval etc. “It was also alleged that illegal gains on the count of these acts were diverted to concerned public servants by private parties by making false entries in their books of accounts,” a CBI spokesperson had said after FIR filed on August 17, 2022.
CBI earlier arrested Manish Sisodia
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sisodia for alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 on February 26 following several rounds of questioning.
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