Former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia's bail plea in ED case to be heard today

NEW DELHI: A court on Monday extended the judicial custody of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in two cases in connection with the alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22. The judicial custody in the case with CBI has been extended till April 27 and till April 29 in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case.
Special public prosecutor Naveen Kumar Matta, appearing for ED, submitted before the court of special judge MK Nagpal that the agency would file a prosecution complaint against Sisodia, Amandeep Singh Dhal and Arun Ramchandra Pillai by the end of this month.
The court is scheduled to hear arguments on Sisodia's bail application in the money laundering case on Tuesday. On April 12, during the bail hearing, ED told the court that Sisodia had played a "key role" in implementing the now-scrapped excise policy and planted fabricated emails to show there was public approval for it.
While opposing Sisodia's bail plea, special public prosecutor Zoheb Hossain, appearing for ED, had said, "Sisodia played a key role in implementing the policy. This is not a simple policy decision. Cartelisation was done."
ED also claimed that it had evidence that Sisodia had emails "planted". "These have been received not only in the official email account of the excise department, but even in his personal email account. The content of the emails was given by Sisodia, which suited his agenda," Hossain told the court.
The trial court rejected Sisodia's bail plea on March 31 in the CBI case related to the excise policy, stating he can "prima facie be held to be the architect of the said criminal conspiracy".