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Excise policy case: ED seizes ₹1 crore cash after raids at 35 locations

The searches were launched on Friday at about 35 locations in Delhi-NCR, Punjab and Hyderabad.About a crore cash has been seized from a location during the raids conducted against liquor businessmen, distribution companies and linked entities, sources told PTI.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, while reacting to the ED raids on Friday said hundreds of raids by central agencies to find evidence against Sisodia yielded nothing as he didn't do anything wrong. (HT_PRINT)Premium
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, while reacting to the ED raids on Friday said hundreds of raids by central agencies to find evidence against Sisodia yielded nothing as he didn't do anything wrong. (HT_PRINT)

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized about 1 crore in cash after raids conducted in about 35 locations in connection with a money laundering investigation into the alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, news agency PTI has reported citing official sources.

The searches were launched on Friday at about 35 locations in Delhi-NCR, Punjab and Hyderabad.

About a crore cash has been seized from a location during the raids conducted against liquor businessmen, distribution companies and linked entities, sources told PTI.

Some digital devices and documents were also seized, they said without disclosing the locations of all the recoveries.

Premises linked to a director of a Delhi-based TV news organisation, who is also on the board of a Telugu daily, a city-based businessman whose company imports and distributes various alcoholic beverages and a former Punjab MLA were also searched by ED officials, they said.

The federal agency has conducted more than 103 raids in this case till now and last month arrested Sameer Mahandru, a liquor businessman and managing director of liquor manufacturing company-Indospirit.

The money laundering case stems from a CBI FIR that had named Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia as an accused among others.

The scheme came under the scanner after Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena recommended a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of Delhi's Excise Policy 2021-22.

He had also suspended 11 excise officials in the matter.

The ED has questioned AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak and minister Satyendar Jain, who is lodged in Tihar Jail, while the CBI questioned a number of people and arrested businessman, Vijay Nair.

The CBI inquiry was recommended on the findings of the Delhi chief secretary's report filed in July showing prima facie violations of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) Act 1991, Transaction of Business Rules (ToBR)-1993, Delhi Excise Act-2009, and Delhi Excise Rules-2010, officials said.

As the ED launched fresh searches in connection with the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said hundreds of raids by central agencies to find evidence against his deputy Manish Sisodia have yielded nothing as he didn't do anything.

Time of hundreds of sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is being wasted for "dirty politics", he said.

Manish Sisodia was an accused in an FIR registered by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.

"Over 500 raids, more than 300 officials have been working round the clock for three months to find evidence against Manish Sisodia. Nothing has been found because he has not done anything," Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.

"Time of so many officers is being wasted for one's dirty politics. How will the country progress like this," he asked.

(With inputs from agencies)

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Published: 08 Oct 2022, 03:07 PM IST
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