He will be questioned in connection with the allegations of money laundering. (Image: PTI)
The Enforcement Directorate will record Sisodia’s statement against money-laundering charges linked to the liquor policy case.
The Enforcement Directorate will interrogate former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in Tihar Jail today. The AAP leader was arrested by the CBI and sent to judicial custody till March 20 in connection with the Delhi liquor scam.
The Enforcement Directorate will record Sisodia’s statement against money-laundering charges linked to the liquor policy case. Former Delhi Deputy CM Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on 26 February. He left his post in the Delhi cabinet on 28 February.
He said the federal probe agency has made a fresh arrest in the case besides taking Hyderabad-based liquor baron Arun Ramachandra Pillai into custody.
ED officials will reach Tihar Jail around noon to record Sisodia’s statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI in this case last month and is currently in judicial custody.
Pillai was taken into custody on Monday evening under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after prolonged questioning. The businessman, who allegedly represents the ‘South Group’ of liquor barons, is the 11th person to be arrested by the ED in this connection.
He would be produced before a local court where the ED would seek his further custody for questioning, they said.
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