Manish Sisodia, a former deputy chief minister, was allowed to sign documents related to the registration of a new bank account on Friday by the Rouse Avenue court in Delhi.
Manish Sisodia was permitted to sign the paperwork necessary to open a new bank account by special judge MK Nagpal.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has frozen his prior bank account in connection with a money laundering investigation involving Delhi Excise law.
On his behalf, an application was moved. According to the report, he is a sitting MLA from Patparganj, and his pay is deposited into the bank account that is attached.
His previous bank was the Bank of Baroda in Delhi’s Shakarpur.
Due to the attachment, the family of the accused was finding it difficult to withdraw the money from the same bank account. Therefore he needs to open a new bank account, the application said.
The court has granted permission to sign some of the documents by the applicant, advocate Irsha Khan submitted.
Special Public Prosecutor Naveen Kumar Matta urged the court that the details of the new bank account may be provided to the agency.
At this point, Manish Sisodia said, “They know everything, except how many chapatis I have been eating.”
The matter has been listed on September 22 for scrutiny of documents.
Meanwhile, the court granted some more time to the ED to supply the legible copies of supplementary charge sheets and documents filed along with some of the accused.
Applications were moved by some of the accused stating that the copies of documents were not legible and missing.
The supplementary charge sheet as well as documents have been supplied to other accused persons including Manish Sisodia, the court noted.
The ED had alleged that proceeds of crime of around Rs 622 crore had been generated due to the activities of the present accused Manish Sisodia.
Sisodia was arrested by the ED in this case on March 9. Earlier he was arrested by the CBI on February 26. He is the 29th accused arrested in this case.
While dismissing his bail Rouse Avenue Court had stated, “This case of economic offences having serious repercussions upon the general public and society at large as the evidence collected during investigation speaks volumes of his involvement in the commission of the said offence.”
The court also noted that some evidence is also alleged to have surfaced during the investigation to show that some part of the kickback or bribe amount received from South lobby was spent or utilized in connection with the election campaign of the AAP in Goa.
