Excise Case: Manish Sisodia sent to judicial custody till April 5

The Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday sent Delhi’s former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia till April 5, 2023, in a money laundering case pertaining to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of GNCTD. The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday produced Sisodia before the Court at the end of the custodial remand period granted earlier. The ED didn’t seek further remand and moved an application for judicial custody. Noted this, Special Judge MK Nagpal sent Sisodia to judicial custody. Meanwhile, Manish Sisodia urges Court that he be allowed to carry some religious and spiritual books during judicial custody. Court said, “You move an application in this regard, and we will allow it.” On the last date of the hearing, while passing the order on remand extension the same Court said, “It cannot be ignored that investigation into an ED case is a complicated affair and keeping in view the intricacies of the case, the multiplicity of the persons/accused involved in the commission of the alleged offence of money laundering and the huge volume of the records or data seized during the investigation and required to be analyzed by the Investigating Agency, it is bound to take some time and the IO or Investigating Agency cannot be faulted or blamed for the same, though they are duty bound to do and conclude it as early as possible.”