Delhi excise policy case: ED raids 30 locations pan-India, likely to summon the accused for questioning
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Delhi, Sept 7th,2022: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids at more than 30 locations across the country in connection with the Delhi Excise policy scam case including Delhi, Lucknow, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and some other locations.
The searches are currently targeting various vendors, distributors, and middlemen engaged by the Delhi government under its now scrapped excise policy.
Earlier this month, the residence of Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was also raided by CBI in regard to the excise policy case.
Enforcement Directorate officials registered a case based on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR on the Delhi Liquor Scam. The CBI named Sisodia as the number one accused in its FIR.
The CBI registered an FIR under IPC sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 477-A (falsification of accounts).
This case has been registered with the allegations of a Rs.30 crore exemption given to the liquor traders. There are allegations against him that licensees have been extended at will and policy rules have been framed in violation of excise rules.
The FIR also stated that Arva Gopi Krishna, the then Commissioner (Excise), Anand Tiwari, the then Deputy Commissioner (Excise), and Pankaj Bhatnagar, Assistant Commissioner (Excise) were instrumental in recommending and taking decisions pertaining to excise policy for the year 2021-22 without the approval of competent authority with an intention to extend undue favors to the licensee post tender.
The ED has lodged a Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) case and is likely to summon all accused for questioning soon.
