Delhi’s former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was produced before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Monday where the court sent the Aam Aadmi Party leader to 14-day judicial custody. As per the reports, Sisodia will be placed in Tihar Jail till March 20.

AAP leader Manish Sisodia was taken into custody by the CBI after he was questioned by the probe agency in the now-reverted liquor policy last Sunday.

The CBI court on Saturday heard the bail application filled by Manish Sisodia where the former AAP Minister alleged that the probe agency was asking him the same questions over and over which is causing him mental harassment. The Rouse Avenue court had extended Sisodia’s custody till today.

Sisodia had also approached the Supreme Court for respite in the case, however, the Apex Court dismissed his plea noted that the AAP leader already have ample legal remedies available before approaching the Supreme Court.

As per the reports, the Central Bureau of Investigation had also alleged AAP leader of not cooperating with the investigation and giving evasive replies during the investigation. Sisodia’s legal aid had also cited that the custody of AAP leader will serve no purpose as recoveries have already been made in the case.

Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had called on the CBI to probe into the now-scrapped liquor policy last year after which Manish Sisodia was alleged to be the key accused for corruption in liquor policy scam by the probe agency in the case.

After being arrested by the CBI in the now-reverted liquor policy, Sisodia resigned from his ministerial post from Delhi cabinet.

Following his arrest, Opposition parties joined hands to write to the Prime Minister of India and slamming the center for using central agencies for the benefit of the dispensation.

The Opposition parties who wrote to PM Modi about the misuse of central agencies include signatories of BRS chief and Telangana CM Chandrasekhar Rao, JKNC chief Farooq Abdullah, AITC chief Mamata Banerjee, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, Bihar Deputy CM and RJD chairperson Tejashwi Yadav and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.

The letter had also added that the crackdown on the Opposition by the Centre shows that country has transitioned from a democracy to an autocracy. However, Congress failed to emerge and partake in the letter written to the PM.

After being accused of defaming India in foreign soil, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi has come forward to thwart the allegations as he raked up and turned the guns around on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for doing the same previously. Rahul Gandhi countered the defaming India allegations while answering a question asked during an event organised by Indian Journalists’ Association.

The allegations by the Bharatiya Janata Party on Rahul Gandhi giving India a poor name in foreign soil came to the fore after the Congress leader’s lecture at Cambridge University came to light.

Rahul Gandhi while countering the allegations said that he recalls the time when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to abroad and stated that nothing has been done in the 60 or 70 years of independence. The Congress leader also said that he remembers the PM saying there is a lost decade in the Country.

Rahul Gandhi, while countering the allegations, said that PM Modi had also said that there is incessant corruption in India while he was on foreign soil.

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The Wayanad MP also claimed that he has never defamed his country and further added that he is not interested in doing so, ever. He added and slammed the BJP and accused them of presenting his statement in a twisted manner.

The counter by the Congress leader comes after BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra attacked Gandhi and said that he is telling bad things about India in such a big university. Patra further added that even Pakistan dares not say such things about India on global platforms. However, Patra and added and said that Gandhi is presenting the country as place where democracy no longer prevails and the judiciary is not independent.

Union law Minister Kiren Rijiju had also come forward to weigh in on the issue and claimed that a message is being sent to the world that democracy in India is under attack and termed it to be a an attempt to defame India.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi delivered a lecture last week at his Alma Matter Cambridge University. As per the reports, Gandhi’s lecture talked and claimed that Israeli spyware was used against him as well as on other leaders. He had also claimed that democracy is under attack in India and attributed the rulling BJP for it.

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There has been a ruckus in Delhi’s politics since the arrest of Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia. AAP leaders are constantly questioning the central government and the BJP and today party’s spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj accused the CBI of mentally torturing Manish Sisodia in a press conference and said that he is being pressurized to sign a false confession.

Saurabh Bhardwaj said that Manish Sisodia had indicated this through his lawyer yesterday. It is unfortunate that a person who worked for poor children and today when CBI lacks evidence, they do not have any proof of dishonesty of even a single rupee. That’s why pressure is being created by torture so that they confess.

On CBI’s claim of missing cabinet note, Saurabh Bhardwaj said that CBI was saying that it has all the evidence and now it is saying that there is no cabinet note, the minister is roaming around with it in his pocket.

Congress is being attacked too

9 leaders have written a letter to PM Modi regarding the misuse of investigative agencies, in which no Congress leader is involved. Saurabh Bhardwaj has fiercely targeted the Congress regarding this. He said that Congress has never stood with the opposition, this has been its history. He said that AAP have been hearing that BJP people used to say that they will put Rahul Gandhi and Robert Vadra in jail, Congress disappears when national issues are in front, this is just a war of words, when Arvind Kejriwal was raided.

On the question of contacting Congress, he said that Congress is also in the country, everyone knows what happened to Manish Sisodia? Congress claims to be elder brother, when this was happening with Manish Sisodia, curd was in his mouth. Sonia, where is Rahul Gandhi? The Congress wants the entire opposition to end and only it and the BJP remain.