CBI files chargesheet against Arvind Kejriwal in liquor policy case

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, July 29, 2024: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday filed its supplementary chargesheet against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Rouse Avenue Court in connection with the money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy.

The chargesheet was filed following an extensive probe into the alleged misuse of the Delhi excise policy, which is claimed to have involved substantial financial misconduct.

Earlier in June this year, the CBI arrested Kejriwal in the liquor policy case after the Rouse Avenue Court allowed the agency to examine the AAP supremo in court.

The federal investigative agency charged the Delhi Chief Minister as "one of the primary conspirators" in the excise policy case. The agency said that the ex-media in-charge of AAP and a close associate of Kejriwal, Vijay Nair, was in touch with several liquor producers and traders.

The CBI also claimed that the ex-post facto approval to former Delhi minister Manish Sisodia’s decisions on the liquor policy was given by the Cabinet headed by Kejriwal.

The agency said that the AAP supremo got the profit margin of liquor wholesalers enhanced from 5 per cent to 12 per cent without any rationale.

"Arvind Kejriwal is part of the conspiracy in the liquor scam. All Delhi government decisions were taken only as per his directions," the CBI said, in earlier hearings before the court.