Delhi excise policy | CBI must arrest me in 4 days if BJP’s ‘sting’ video is genuine: Manish Sisodia

He said if the CBI does not arrest him within four days, it will be accepted that the purported sting video is ‘yet another lie’

Delhi minister Manish Sisodia on September 15 asked the BJP to share the purported sting featuring an accused in the excise policy case with the CBI and dared the probe agency to arrest him if the allegations are true.

He said if the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) does not arrest him within four days, it will be accepted that the purported sting video is “yet another lie” and part of the conspiracy “hatched at the offices of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi” to topple the Arvind Kejriwal-led government in Delhi.

The deputy chief minister also demanded that the prime minister extend an apology accepting that it was wrong for his office to indulge in hatching such conspiracies if the CBI fails to arrest him till September 19 based on the allegations made in the “so-called sting”.

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Mr. Sisodia’s reaction came after the BJP shared the purported sting to claim that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi framed its excise policy to help a select few and used the money earned through alleged corruption to fund its campaign in Goa and Punjab Assembly polls.

The BJP showed the sting at a press conference in which a person linked to liquor trade is claiming that the Mr. Kejriwal’s government deliberately kept smaller players out of its “tailor-made” excise policy, now scrapped, to help a few persons monopolise the market.

Mr. Kejriwal has no moral right to continue as chief minister, the party said.