Probe agencies have no evidence against Sisodia only 'fabricated' stories: Raghav Chadha

AAP leader Raghav Chadha on Friday claimed that central probe agencies only have malicious and fabricated stories against former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and have been asking him the same questions.

AAP leader Raghav Chadha on Friday claimed that central probe agencies only have ''malicious and fabricated stories'' against former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and have been asking him the same questions. Sisodia has been under ED custody since March 9 over a money laundering case related to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy. He was first arrested by CBI in the same case on February 26.

In another press conference, AAP leader Sanjay Singh alleged that Sisodia has been treated even ''worse than a terrorist.'' Chadha said that the Enforcement Directorate officers have questioned Sisodia for only 15 hours during his 7-day remand.

Addressing a press conference, Chadha claimed the CBI and the ED don't have any evidence against Sisodia and he is behind bars as a result of BJP's ''politics of revenge.'' ''The BJP is scared of AAP and has started a politics of revenge. CBI and ED don't have any evidence against Manish Sisodia. They only have concocted stories against him. When the court said that CBI took Sisodia on remand, interrogated him and did not find anything against him, they got ED to frame more false cases against him,'' Chadha alleged.

''The central agencies … only have malicious and fabricated stories against him. The CBI and the ED asked the same questions to Sisodia during his interrogation and the purpose of doing this was to keep Sisodia behind the bars,'' he alleged.

On Friday, a Delhi court extended Sisodia's ED custody for another five days, against the agency's demand for seven more days of remand.

The ED told the court that crucial information had come up during Sisodia's custody and he had to be confronted with the other accused persons. It said data from his email and mobile phone is also being forensically analysed.

Sanjay Singh said that the extension of ED custody for Manish Sisodia has ''no context.'' ''BJP's dictatorship will not be tolerated and the whole country is watching how the party is misusing the central agencies. A leader who sacrificed his life for transformation of Delhi's education has been targeted. Even a terrorist is not treated in such a manner,'' Singh said.

Sisodia has been lodged in Tihar jail in connection with a Central Bureau of Investigation case pertaining to alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy for 2021-22.

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