Delhi excise policy: Manish Sisodia's ED custody extended by 5 days

While seeking Manish Sisodia's custody, the ED told the court that the AAP leader needs to be confronted again.

Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Friday extended Delhi's former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand by five more days in a money laundering case pertaining to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the Delhi excise policy.

The Court allowed Manish Sisodia to sign cheques for his family's expenses and his wife's medical expenses of Rs 40,000 and Rs 45,000 respectively.

The ED told the court that Sisodia needs to be confronted again. He could not say where his phone is. Sisodia's lawyer opposed the plea for extending the remand on this ground of the phone as he said the CBI too mentioned this point in their remand. The ED has to say something else to justify their further remand, Sisodia's lawyer argued.

Sisodia's lawyer said Sisodia's computer was seized and investigated earlier by one agency. Now another agency is trying to repeat the whole process again. "They have to show the proceeds of the crime and how I am involved in all this. If they investigate for 7 months and then come to court seeking my remand, then what have you done?" Sisodia's lawyer said.

The ED arrested Sisodia from the Tihar jail, where he was lodged in connection with a case being probed by the CBI pertaining to alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy for 2021-22.

The 51-year-old was placed under arrest under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following his second round of questioning at the Tihar jail.