Manish Sisodia, Delhi News Live: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia addresses the media on Saturday, a day after the CBI raided his residence for over 14 hours. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna)Delhi Excise Policy Case, Delhi News Live Updates, 21 August 2022: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Sunday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government, accusing it of ‘fighting with the whole country’ instead of fighting inflation and unemployment. Kejriwal’s comments came amid reports the CBI has issued a lookout notice for his deputy Manish Sisodia.
The BJP in retaliation said that “handcuffs are getting close” to Kejriwal, accusing him of being the “kingpin” of the alleged excise scam. BJP’s spokesperson, Gaurav Bhatia, said, “The AAP is saying it’ll be Modi versus Kejriwal in 2024, but we all know what happened in UP, Uttarakhand, and Goa.”
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia Sunday said the move comes after “nothing was found” during the raids on Friday. Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sisodia said that he was ‘roaming freely’ in Delhi, and called the look-out notice a ‘nautanki’ (drama). The CBI, however, said the lookout circular is “likely to be issued soon and is in the process” against Manish Sisodia and others accused in the Delhi excise policy case.
They say the memory of the food you had growing up stays on your taste buds for life. And if Motichoor Laddoo, a sweetmeat speciality of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, came to be branded as ‘Dilli ka Laddoo’, credit must go to migrant communities who took it back to their home states on their annual vacations.
For example, for a large number of Bengalis settled in Kolkata, a visit from their “pravasi” relatives in Delhi meant expectantly looking forward to the cellophane wrapped gift box. Somehow, memories got made not just because of the luscious sweet nestled inside but because of the way the cardboard smelt of the ghee as the laddoo’s gooey fullness wafted up your senses while opening it. (Read more)
Football Delhi on Sunday launched its grassroots level Golden League 2022-23 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here. This will be the third season of the Football Delhi Golden League which is being played in three age categories of U-7, U-9 and U-11. Gurugram based sports management company Bunker Hill is the sponsor of the league.
The league will see more than 2000 youngsters from 325 teams playing over 2700 matches in multiple zones throughout Delhi NCR.
"Football Delhi is creating this beautiful platform for children to be part of this beautiful game which would help them in kicking forward their love and passion for the game," Football Delhi President Shaji Prabhakaran said in a release. (PTI)
The Jawaharlal Nehru University is planning to set up a centre to study the 1947 partition in depth to fill the historical gaps, Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said on Sunday. The varsity will send a proposal in this regard to the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Education (MoE).
The centre will mainly focus on research around the partition so as to highlight the stories of common people who were affected by it while also highlighting the 'horrors' of the division, the VC said.
The university will also introduce new courses regarding the same. The centre will help in the study of the refugees and the situation where people had to migrate involuntarily, Santishree told PTI. (PTI)
Heavy rains lashed the Central part of the national capital on Sunday afternoon, bringing relief from the hot and humid weather conditions. Heavy to light showers were witnessed in Lyutens' Delhi and areas such as Barakhamba Road, Connaught Place and the Mathura Road.
It caused heavy traffic jam in some areas.The morning was humid with the minimum temperature settling at 26.6 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department. The relative humidity was recorded at 83 per cent at 8:30 pm, the IMD said. (PTI)
Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was Sunday detained by the Delhi Police at the Ghazipur border while he was trying to enter the national capital to take part in an unemployment protest rally at Jantar Mantar. A Delhi Police official said Tikat, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and a prominent face of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), was stopped at the border around afternoon.
"Thereafter, he was detained and taken to Madhu Vihar police station where police spoke to him and requested him to return," Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Dependra Pathak said. The DCP said Tikait "agreed" with the police request and "he has been escorted back".
Sources said Tikat was detained as the Delhi police was trying to prevent "undue gathering" in the national capital. Tikait alleged the Delhi police was working at the behest of the Centre. (PTI)
The Noida police arrested a woman for allegedly misbehaving with a security guard of the high-rise society she resides at.
In a video clip going viral on social media platforms, the accused, Bhavya Roy, can be seen shouting at a security guard near the residential society’s gates, using abusive language and pushing him roughly.
“Officials of the Noida Sector 126 police station have taken cognisance of a video that went viral on social media wherein a woman is seen misbehaving with a guard at Jaypee Wishtown. The police have registered an FIR and are investigating the matter,” said a police spokesperson. (Read more)
Soon after reports surfaced that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had issued a lookout notice for Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with a probe into the excise policy, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, came in support of him.
Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi: “At a time when the common man is battling with inflation, crores of youth are unemployed, the central government, along with all the state governments, should fight unemployment and inflation. Instead, they (the central government) are fighting with the whole country. Every morning they wake up and start the game of CBI-ED. How will such a country progress?” (Read more)
"The Tyagi community is upset. We will not tolerate the injustice towards Shrikant Tyagi's wife Anu. This is all because of BJP MP Mahesh Sharma. We have been supporting BJP for years. This is unfair. We want action against officials who harassed Tyagi's family," said a protester at the Tyagi Mahapanchayat organised in Noida on Sunday.
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A gathering of the Tyagi community at a Mahapanchayat was organised in Sector 110, Noida, in support of Shrikant Tyagi. Protesters demanded action against the woman who alleged she was pushed and abused by Tyagi at their residential society in Noida. Shrikant Tyagi has been booked by Noida police for assaulting the woman and misusing state government symbols on his car.
Hitting out at AAP, BJP on Sunday said, "When it was time to help Covid-affected people, Delhi CM was busy indulging in corruption by signing new excise policy."
The party also said, "Roots of excise policy 'scam' lead to doorsteps of corrupt Kejriwal, no one is above law and no corrupt person will be spared." (PTI)
'AAP is saying it'll be Modi versus Kejriwal in 2024, but we all know what happened in UP, Uttarakhand and Goa,' said BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia at a press conference on Sunday.
He added, 'Handcuffs are getting close to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as nodes of corruption are being unravelled.' (PTI)
In view of outbreak of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in some districts of Haryana, Gurgaon district administration has issued orders under Section 144 of CrPC, imposing ban on inter district and intra district movement of animals within the jurisdiction of district Gurgaon.
The Delhi High Court has said that in exercise of its jurisdiction under Article 226, it cannot declare Delhi minister and AAP MLA Satyendar Kumar Jain – who is in judicial custody in a money laundering case – as “a person with unsound mind” or disqualify him from the Assembly, in an order made public on Saturday.
The division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad, in the judgment, noted that Jain is facing prosecution for various offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Prevention of Corruption Act and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). “However, the fact remains that the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 is a complete code in itself which provides a mechanism in respect of investigation, inquiry and trial. The Code of Criminal Procedure caters to all contingencies and it is for the prosecution/ court to take appropriate steps in accordance with the law,” said the court in its order dated August 16.
The court had on August 16 heard the petition stating that Jain had told the ED officers during questioning that he lost his memory on account of Covid-19. “We will pass appropriate orders,” the court had said then while reserving its order. The petition has now been dismissed. Read the full report here
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said, 'At a time when common man is battling with inflation, crores of youth are unemployed, the Central government along with all the state governments should fight unemployment and inflation. Instead they are fighting with the whole country. Every morning they wake up and start the game of CBI ED. How will such a country progress?'
Reacting to reports of CBI issuing a look-out notice for him, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia on Sunday said that the move comes after “nothing was found” during the raids on Friday.
With the CBI searches escalating the war of words between the BJP at the Centre and the AAP in Delhi, leaders from both parties have been trading barbs.
The CBI on Saturday began questioning people in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the rollout of the Delhi excise policy which was withdrawn recently.
It was not made clear whether those questioned were excise officials named by the CBI in its FIR on the matter or liquor vendors arraigned as accused.
“More people are being summoned in the next few days for questioning. The investigation is in the initial stages. The documents recovered during searches conducted on Friday are being scrutinised,” a CBI officer said.
In a corruption FIR, the CBI named 15 people, with Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s name at the top of the list. Read the full report here
A day after the CBI named 15 people, including Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, business owners as well as senior bureaucrats, in its FIR filed in connection with the now scrapped Delhi excise policy, The Indian Express visited offices and residences whose addresses were mentioned by the investigating agency. Abhinaya Harigovind, Arnav Chandrasekhar and Pavneet Singh Chadha report.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said that CBI has issued a look-out notice for him after “nothing was found” during the raids on Friday. Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sisodia said that he was “roaming freely” in Delhi, and called the look-out notice “nautanki” (gimmick).
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