Excise Policy scam: HC allows Sisodia to withdraw interim bail plea

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s request to withdraw his interim bail application, which he had submitted due to his wife’s health.

On Wednesday, Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma’s bench granted Manish Sisodia’s request to drop his interim bail application. The same bench was hearing the usual bail plea in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case.

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju appeared for ED and said, “It is a mala fide withdrawal. They are withdrawing the interim bail plea after it was pointed out that Sisodia’s counsels were suppressing facts. ED had told Court that his wife had already been discharged from the hospital when Sisodia moved an application for interim bail citing her health condition.”

Meanwhile, Senior Advocate Mohit Mathur who appeared for Manish Sisodia stated “Much water has flown under the bridge since then. His wife’s condition is better now.”

Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia recently filed bail petitions in connection with a money laundering case involving the excise policy.

Sisodia sought both regular and interim bail at the Delhi High Court. He had applied for interim bail based on his wife’s illness and requested six weeks’ bail.
Earlier, the trial judge denied his bail request in the ED-investigated money laundering case.

While dismissing Manish Sisodia’s bail application in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam, the Rouse Avenue Court stated that “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.”