Excise policy case: Delhi HC allows AAP's Manish Sisodia to meet his ailing wife once a week under ED, CBI custody
Delhi High Court on Friday allowed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia to meet his ailing wife once a week under ED, CBI custody.
The matter was then deferred to May 8, 2024.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Sisodia had moved the court on Thursday challenging the trial court order refusing him bail in the excise policy case being investigated by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Advocates Rajat Bharadwaj and Mohd Irshad mentioned the matter before the bench led by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and requested for urgent listing of the matter.
Noting the submissions, the bench said, «Let the concerned judge go through the file if your papers are in order by 12.30 pm today, we will have it tomorrow.»
On April 30, the Rouse Avenue Court dismissed the bail petitions of Sisodia for the second time in the case and said, "...This court is not inclined to admit the Applicant to Bail, either regular or interim, at this stage. The application under consideration is accordingly dismissed,"
Special Judge Kaveri Baweja also said, «It is apparent that the Applicant individually, and along with different accused have been filing one or the other application /making oral submissions frequently, some of them frivolous, that too on a piecemeal basis, apparently as a concerted effort for accomplishing the shared purpose of causing delay in the matter.»
The court also added that the period of incarceration of Benoy Babu and that of the
