Delhi Liquor Policy Case: AAP MP Sanjay Singh To Stay In Jail As Bail Hearing Gets Postponed

Rajya Sabha MP and founding member for the Aam Aadmi Party, Sanjay Singh has to spend some more days in jail. His bail hearing in the liquor policy case was postponed on Saturday as the concerned judge was on leave. Singh had filed his bail application in Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Friday, which will now be heard on November 28.

He was arrested from his residence by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case related to the Liquor Policy in Delhi. Before being sent to judicial custody till December 4, AAP leader spent five days in custody initially, and later the custody was extended by three days.

Notably, the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) period to file the charge-sheet will be expiring on December 3. On behalf of Sanjay Singh, who is in the custody since October 5, two other applications were also submitted requesting the provision of an electric kettle in jail. While the other seeks permission to get two cheques signed by him, accounting for Rs 50,000 and Rs 90,000.

For both the requests, no objection was raised by the Investigation officers, a report published in the India Today claimed. Taking cognizance of the requests, the court directed jail superintendent to proceed as per the provisions in the jail manual.

In the same liquor policy case, Sanjay Singh is the third Aam Aadmi Party leader held by the investigating agency after Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain in past seventeen months.

At the time of Sanjay Singh's arrest, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal had called the arrest illegal, claiming it a tactic to vanish opposition. Kejriwal had also said that more opposition leaders would be taken into the custody ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections.