HC asks ED to respond to Manish Sisodia's bail plea in money laundering case

The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response of the Enforcement Directorate ED on a plea by former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia seeking bail in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scamJustice Dinesh Kumar Sharma issued notice to the ED on the regular bail plea and interim bail application of the senior AAP leaderThe high court granted time to the ED to file a verification report within a week and listed the matter for further hearing on May 11Sisodia has filed the regular bail plea as well as an interim bail application on grounds of illness of his wifeAlso Read Delhi court extends Sisodias ED custody in excise policy caseSenior advocate Dayan Krishnan and Mohit Mathur representing Sisodia submitted that the AAP leaders wife has been suffering from multiple sclerosis a degenerative disease for the last 20 years and it was likely to worsenThe EDs counsel opposed the plea contending that Sisodia was the key conspirator in the caseSisodia has challenged a trial courts April 28 order by which his bail plea was dismissed in the money laundering case on grounds that the evidence prima facie speaks volumes of his involvement in commission of the offenceSisodias regular and interim bail pleas in the case lodged by CBI are also listed for hearing during the day before Justice SharmaHe was arrested by the CBI and ED in the corruption and money laundering cases on February 26 and March 9 respectivelyThe trial court while denying him relief in the EDs case had said the prosecution was able to show a genuine and prima facie case for Sisodias involvement in money launderingThe ED had opposed the bail application before the trial court asserting that the investigation was at a crucial stage and claiming that the senior AAP leader had planted fabricated emails to show there was public approval for the policyThe CBI and the ED had arrested Sisodia for alleged corruption in the formulation and execution of the nowscrapped Delhi Excise Policy 202122 and for purportedly laundering the money generated from the policyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever