"Textbook Example Of Abuse Of Law": AAP MP On Manish Sisodia's Arrest
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AAP Rajya Sabha MP and national spokesperson Raghav Chadha claimed that Manish Sisodia was set to get bail but CBI deliberately did not let its lawyer appear before the court.
Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party, whose senior leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain have been arrested in unrelated cases, on Saturday accused the BJP-led Centre of misusing the central probe agencies to finish the opposition and turn India into an autocracy.
Addressing a press conference, AAP Rajya Sabha MP and national spokesperson Raghav Chadha claimed that Manish Sisodia was set to get bail but CBI deliberately did not let its lawyer appear before the court and a next date for hearing was fixed as a result.
"In the meantime, ED also made up its mind to arrest Sisodia in the same case to ask the same questions based on the same evidence," he charged. "This is a textbook example of abuse of law. Probe agencies are abusing the process of law."
Mr Sisodia, the former deputy chief minister of Delhi, was arrested by CBI on February 26 in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy for 2021-22.
