Delhi Liquor Policy Case: The Enforcement Directorate detained two individuals on Wednesday as part of its money laundering investigation into alleged anomalies in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, including the director of a pharmaceutical business.
Benoy Babu of Pernod Ricard and Sarath Reddy, Director of Hyderabad-based Aurobindo Pharma, were both taken into custody by the agency late on Wednesday night in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. According to several provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, both officers have been detained (PMLA).
The investigation team had previously investigated his property and interrogated him twice.
In this case, the Enforcement Directorate has already carried out a number of raids. It detained Sameer Mahandru, the managing director of the liquor-making business Indospirit, in September.
Central agency initiated a money laundering case in August
After taking note of a CBI complaint that listed Manish Sisodia as an accused person in addition to senior Delhi government bureaucrats and others, the central agency initiated a money laundering case in August.
In the beginning of the month, the agency searched the home of a Manish Sisodia assistant before questioning him at its Delhi headquarters.
The Delhi Lieutenant Governor recommended a CBI investigation into the suspected anomalies in the implementation of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021–2022, which put the excise plan under scrutiny. Eleven excise officials have also been suspended by the Lieutenant Governor.
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Just a few months prior to the Gujarat assembly elections, the CBI probe into the liquor policy issue began
Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, has claimed that the centre is trying to undermine the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) campaign in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by using the Lieutenant Governor as a pawn.
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