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Manish Sisodia In Court Shortly, AAP Protest In Delhi, Punjab: 10 Points

Chaotic scenes were witnessed near the BJP headquarters in New Delhi as police detained several of the protesters.

Manish Sisodia will be presented in a CBI court shortly.

New Delhi: Manish Sisodia, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, will be produced in court shortly by the CBI, day after he was arrested in the liquor policy case. Members of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party staged a huge protest in the national capital; several were detained

Here are the latest updates in this big story:

  1. Aam Aadmi Party workers and supporters took to the streets in Delhi, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Bhopal, and several other cities to protest against Manish Sisodia's arrest by the CBI.

  2. Chaotic scenes were witnessed near the BJP headquarters in New Delhi as police detained several of the protesters.

  3. As AAP protestors tried to march towards the BJP office at DDU Marg, police prevented them from marching ahead by deploying its personnel in strength and erecting barricades.

  4. But the protesters did not stop and tried to climb the barricades, resulting in the police detaining several of them.

  5. Police personnel were seen shoving AAP workers into buses. There were 10-15 buses for carrying the party's workers.

  6. Manish Sisodia will be presented in a CBI court shortly.

  7. Manish Sisodia faces corruption allegations in bringing a new liquor sale policy in the national capital. The CBI contends that liquor companies were involved in the framing of the 2021 policy, for which kickbacks to the tune of Rs 30 crore were paid by a liquor lobby it dubbed the "South Group".

  8. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Mr Sisodia yesterday after questioning him for eight hours on Sunday in the Delhi liquor policy case.

  9. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that he has learnt "most CBI officers" were against arresting his deputy Manish Sisodia and were forced to do so, without evidence, because of "political pressure".

  10. Mr Sisodia spent the night at the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Investigation in Delhi. A team of doctors from AIIMS conducted a medical examination of the AAP leader at the CBI headquarters due to security reasons.



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