The Rouse Avenue Court on Friday advised Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh not to give a political speech in the courtroom, and added that if he does, the court will direct his production via video conference.
The judge made the statement after Sanjay Singh stated in court that the ED did not work on his "against Adani" case. "There is no unrelated matter. If you want to speak about Adani and Modi. "From now on, I'll request production via video conferencing," the judge remarked.
Sanjay Singh was placed in Judicial Custody by Special Judge MK Nagpal on October 27, 2023, after the investigation agency brought him before the court after his previous custodial interrogation expired.
Meanwhile, Sanjay Singh's counsel requested that the Court grant him permission to bring 16 different books written by Mahatma Gandhi, Ram Manohar Lohia, Bhagat Singh, and others. According to the jail manual, the judge allowed them to bring literature and medicine.
During his appearance in court, AAP leader Sanjay Singh said that the ED had asked non-serious and unrelated questions during his previous custody interrogation. Sanjay Singh, an Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP, also moved the Delhi High Court on Friday to appeal his arrest in the Delhi Liquor Scam case, as well as the trial court's remand.
On October 4, 2023, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) detained Sanjay Singh after questioning him at his Delhi apartment for a day. In March of this year, Sanjay Singh's party colleague and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was also detained in the same liquor policy scam case.
According to the ED, Singh and his friends were involved in the Delhi government's decision to provide licenses to alcohol shops and merchants in 2020, resulting in losses to the state exchequer and violations of anti-corruption legislation. The ED has previously searched a number of places, including Sanjay Singh's close colleague Ajit Tyagi's home and office, as well as the homes and offices of other contractors and companies who allegedly benefitted from the program. The ED has named Sisodia as a key conspirator in the case in its roughly 270-page supplemental charge sheet.
The Delhi liquor fraud case, also known as the excise policy case, involves charges that the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 facilitated cartelisation and favored some dealers who reportedly paid bribes for it, an allegation that the AAP has fiercely denied. The ED filed its first chargesheet in the matter last year. The agency stated that it has conducted over 200 search operations in this case since filing a FIR in response to a CBI case that was lodged on the recommendation of the Delhi lieutenant governor.
The CBI investigation was ordered based on the findings of the Delhi chief secretary's report, which showed prima facie violations of the GNCTD Act of 1991, the Transaction of Business Rules (ToBR) of 1993, the Delhi Excise Act of 2009, and the Delhi Excise Rules of 2010. According to the ED and the CBI, irregularities were committed while changing the Excise Policy, excessive favors were granted to license holders, the licensing price was waived or decreased, and the L-1 license was extended without the consent of the relevant authority. To avoid detection, the recipients shifted "illegal" income to the accused authorities and made fake entries in their books of account.
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