New Delhi, 22 August. Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia appeared in the Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday in the Delhi Excise scam case. The court allowed Sisodia to release money from the MLA’s fund for development work. The next hearing will be held on September 20 in the CBI case related to the excise scam.
The CBI filed a supplementary charge sheet in this case on April 25 in Delhi. The CBI had also made Sisodia an accused in this case. Besides Sisodia, Buchi Babu, Arjun Pandey, and Amandeep Dhall have been made accused in the supplementary charge sheet. Buchi Babu has been the CA of Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister KC Rao.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26. On November 25, 2022, the CBI filed the first charge sheet. The court had taken cognizance of the first charge sheet on December 15, 2022. The Court had framed charges against the accused under Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 7, 7A, and 8 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. In the first charge sheet, the court has taken cognizance of Kuldeep Singh, Narendra Singh, Vijay Nair, Abhishek Boinapalli, Arun Ramachandra Pillai, Muthu Gautam, and Sameer Mahendru.
