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New Delhi: Kailash Gahlot, another high-profile cabinet minister in the Delhi government, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in the Delhi excise policy case Saturday, hours after receiving a summons from the agency...
An ED source told ThePrint that Gahlot, who has been summoned for the first time, was part of the Group of Ministers (GoM) also including former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and former health minister Satyendar Jain that gave directions to the excise department to restructure the excise policy, in which Delhi would be divided into several zones and an auction would be held for handing over the retail business in these zones to the highest bidders...
He will be questioned for the first time in the case.. The ED has alleged in its supplementary prosecution complaint, which is the agencys version of a chargesheet, that the GoM ignored an expert committees recommendations on not allotting wholesale licences to manufacturers (and to rather give them to the government), leading to cartelisation and private players reaping profits...
Moreover, the government lost control and supervision over wholesale business, the ED alleged in its remand application moved in court to seek custody of P. Sarath Reddy, who later turned approver in the case.. Additionally, Nair who, according to the ED, played a key role in the formulation of the excise policy and the recoupment of alleged Rs 100 crore in kickbacks from the South Group in exchange for undue favours in connection with the policy was residing at the official government bungalow allotted to Gahlot...
Vijay Nair, on behalf of Arvind Kejriwal and AAP, received kickbacks to the tune of Rs 100 crore from a group, for convenience, we may call it the South Group (as termed in the statements of various persons recorded during the investigation), whose prominent persons are Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Raghav Magunta, Sarath Reddy and K. Kavitha, it said...
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