Judicial custody of MP Sanjay Singh extended till October 27

As soon as the hearing ended, Sanjay Singh came out of the court and told the media - Modi ji is not the Prime Minister of India, but of Adani. When will Adani scams be investigated? Earlier, during the hearing held on October 10, the court had advised Sanjay Singh not to talk to the media.

What happened in the court?

Sanjay Singh- I had complained about Adani's case to ED, but the agency did not take any action.

Court- Do not mention such matters in the premises which are not related to the case. If you have to give a speech about Adani and Modi, then I will ask for your appearance to be conducted through video conferencing.

Sanjay Singh- ED did not ask me questions related to the case during custodial interrogation. ED just asked why I took money from my mother? Why did you send Rs 10,000 to your wife's account? ED has become entertainment department. He is telling lies after lies.

Delhi High Court issued notice to ED
Delhi High Court heard Sanjay Singh's petition on 13 October. The court has issued a notice to ED in the matter and sought its reply. The next hearing in the case will be on October 17. The AAP MP has challenged his arrest in the Delhi liquor scam case and the remand given by the trial court in the High Court.

Sanjay Singh was arrested on 4 October
ED had arrested Sanjay Singh after about 10 hours of raid on October 4 in the money laundering case in Delhi Liquor Policy. On October 5, he was produced in Rouse Avenue Court, from where the court sent him on remand till October 10. Later the remand was extended for three more days.

ED said - evidence of demanding bribe against Sanjay
The investigating agency told the court that there is evidence against Sanjay Singh of demanding bribe. They are not giving correct answers to the questions in custody. They are not even cooperating in the investigation. When he was asked about the phone's data, he did not give a satisfactory answer.

After this, on the demand of ED, the court extended the remand period of Sanjay Singh till October 13. While extending the remand, the court also ordered that ED cannot take Sanjay Singh anywhere without informing the court. In fact, your allegation was that the investigating agency had taken Sanjay to an unknown place twice. Then Sanjay had asked who would be responsible if they had an encounter.

AAP's allegation- ED took Sanjay Singh to unknown place twice
AAP MLA Dilip Pandey said in a press conference on October 11 - His party is thankful to the court that it has written in clear words that Sanjay Singh cannot be taken anywhere without permission, and there will be no restriction on the time of meeting. . ED is following some rule book of BJP, otherwise why would the court have to give such a clear written statement.

Pandey said- Who is sitting on top of ED who makes baseless arrests? Sanjay Singh ji's family is also being mentally tortured. The family meeting time is 6-7 pm but the family is made to wait for a long time.

Sanjay Singh's name was included in the ED charge sheet in January
In January this year, ED had added Sanjay Singh's name in its charge sheet. Sanjay Singh had created a lot of uproar regarding this. In fact, in May, Sanjay Singh claimed that ED had added his name by mistake. To which ED replied that Sanjay Singh's name has been written at four places in our charge sheet. In three of these places the name is spelled correctly. There was a typing mistake only at one place.

After which ED had advised Sanjay Singh not to make statements in the media, because the matter is pending in the court.

What is the allegation against Sanjay Singh?
In the ED charge sheet, Sanjay Singh is accused of taking donations worth Rs 82 lakh. Regarding this, ED reached his house on Wednesday and is interrogating him. ED's second supplementary charge sheet in the Delhi Liquor Policy case was released on May 2. In which the name of Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha also appeared. Although he has not been made an accused.

Now know about the serial liquor policy scam in 5 points...

1. New liquor policy came into effect on November 2021
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia announced the new liquor policy on 22 March 2021. He said that with this policy the liquor shops will go into private hands. When Sisodia was asked the purpose of bringing the new policy, he gave two arguments. First- Mafia rule will end. Second- Government treasury will increase.

The new liquor policy 2021-22 was implemented on 17 November 2021. Due to this, the government came out of the liquor business and this business went into private hands. There was huge sale of liquor due to many big discounts. This increased the government treasury, but there was opposition to this new policy.

2. Allegation of scam in liquor policy in July 2022
On July 8, 2022, Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar alleged that there was a scam in the new liquor policy. He submitted a report related to this to LG VK Saxena. It was told that Sisodia gave undue benefits to licensed liquor traders. On the other hand, LG has also said that changes were made in the liquor policy without his and the cabinet's approval.

3. CBI and ED registered the case on August 2022
LG Saxena demanded a CBI inquiry based on the Chief Secretary's report. The investigating agency registered the case on 17 August 2022. In this, Manish Sisodia, three retired government officers, 9 businessmen and two companies were made accused. A case was registered against everyone under sections related to corruption.

On August 19, raids were conducted at 31 locations in seven states including Sisodia's home and office. On this Sisodia claimed that CBI did not find anything. Here, on August 22, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) took information about the case from CBI and registered a case of money laundering.

4. July 2022 Government canceled the new policy
Seeing the increasing controversy, on July 28, 2022, the Delhi government canceled the new liquor policy. It was decided to implement the old policy again. On July 31, the government said in a cabinet note that despite high sales of liquor, the government's earnings decreased because retail and wholesale traders were withdrawing from the liquor business.

5. CBI arrested Sisodia on February 2023
Sisodia was in charge of the Excise Department, hence he was allegedly made the main accused in this scam. After several interrogations, the investigating agency arrested him on 26 February. At present he is in jail. CBI accused Sisodia that being the Excise Minister, he took arbitrary and unilateral decisions, which caused huge loss to the exchequer and benefited liquor traders.