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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was arrested on Sunday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped liquor policy for 2021-22...
A controversy soon erupted after it was alleged that the excise policy 2021-22 of the Kejriwal government was used to extend undue financial favours to the liquor licensees, much after the tenders had been awarded, and thus caused huge losses to the ex-chequer...
The Delhi Chief Secretarys report alleged that Minister In-charge of the Excise Department, Manish Sisodia, took and got executed, major decisions/actions, which were in violation of the statutory provisions and the notified Excise Policy that had huge financial implications...
It was done so with the sole aim of benefitting private liquor barons in lieu of financial benefits to individuals at the highest echelons of the government leading up to the Minister in-charge of Excise & Finance, Manish Sisodia, the Delhi Chief Secretary has said in his report...
The FIR flagged payments in crores allegedly made to close associates of Sisodia by Sameer Mahendru -- the owner of Indospirits -- one of the liquor traders actively involved in irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy...
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