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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Wednesday reached the residence of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in connection with the liquor policy case. Visuals from his house show the leader and officials engaging in talks at his Delhi Residence.

According to officials, some other premises of linked people were also being covered.  Singh, 51, is a Rajya Sabha MP from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). His staff members and those linked to him were earlier questioned by the ED in this case.

 

Meanwhile, Manish Sisodia, a former deputy chief minister in the AAP government in Delhi, is already in jail in the case filed in connection with the Delhi government's liquor policy. Also, these raids on AAP leader Sanjay Singh come on the day the Supreme Court is expected to hear the bail plea of AAP leader Manish Sisodia in the same case.

ED had arrested AAP leader on March 9 from Tihar Jail where he is currently lodged in judicial custody. In its nearly 270-page supplementary charge sheet ED has called Sisodia a “key conspirator” in the case.

Earlier, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was also questioned for nearly nine hours in the same case in April.

It is alleged that the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP. The policy was subsequently scrapped and the Delhi lieutenant governor recommended a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case under the PMLA.