Excise policy case | Manish Sisodia appears before CBI for questioning, says allegations false, not afraid of going to jail
The Hindu
The Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi is accused number one in the CBI FIR, was earlier questioned on October 17, a month before the agency filed its charge sheet on November 25 last year
The CBI on Sunday began its second round of questioning of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam case.
Mr. Sisodia arrived at the heavily-barricaded CBI office after paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat, officials said.
“I am going to CBI again today, I will cooperate fully in all investigations. The love of lakhs of children and the blessings of millions of countrymen are with me. I don’t care if I have to be in jail for a few months. I’m a follower of Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh went to the gallows for the country. To go to jail over such false accusations is a small thing,” the senior AAP leader said in a tweet in Hindi.
Mr. Sisodia, accused number one in the CBI FIR, was earlier questioned on October 17, a month before the agency filed its charge sheet on November 25 last year.
The CBI had not named SMr. isodia in charge sheet as the central probe agency kept the probe open against him and other suspects and accused, they said.
The CBI will question Mr. Sisodia on various aspects of the excise policy, his alleged links with liquor traders, and politicians and claims made by witnesses in their statements.
Armed with confessional statements of Mr. Sisodia's "close associate" Dinesh Arora, and information gleaned from questioning of alleged members of 'South Lobby', a coterie of politicians and liquor businessmen who allegedly swung the policy in their favour, the CBI has prepared an elaborate questionnaire for him, the officials said.
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