Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested. ED team has arrested Kejriwal. The grounds for the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal have become the investigation by CBI in which many big revelations have been made against Kejriwal. CBI had first registered a case against Manish Sisodia, liquor companies and their owners in the excise scam. CBI is the first central agency to register this case, the investigation of which progressed and then ED registered the case on the basis of CBI’s FIR. Therefore, we will tell you how this investigation reached from CBI to ED and after Manish Sisodia, Arvind Kejriwal was also arrested.
This is how the investigation into the excise policy scam began-
Regarding complaints of irregularities in the new excise policy for 2021-22 implemented by the Delhi government, Praveen Kumar Rai Director MHA issued orders to the CBI to investigate the matter. Along with the order for investigation, a letter from the then LG Vinay Kumar Saxena was also attached in which there was mention of irregularities in the implementation of the new excise policies for 2021-22 by the Delhi government.
Role of Manish Sisodia and former excise officers
In this letter, the then Deputy Chief Minister Delhi Manish Sisodia, the then Commissioner of Excise Department Arva Gopi Krishna, Deputy Commissioner Excise Anand Tiwari, Assistant Commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar recommended this new policy of excise and without taking the permission of the Concern Authority for the year 2021-22. I got this policy applied. Its purpose was to provide unfair advantage to the license holders.
Role of businessmen and those close to Sisodia
CBI got information from reliable sources that Only Much Louder (which is an entertainment and event management company) has its former CO Vijay Nair, former employee of Pernod Record Company Manoj Rai, Brindco Sprits owner Amandeep Dhal, Indo Sprits owner Sameer Mahendru has an important role in making irregularities in the new excise policy of 2021-22 and in implementing this policy.
Entry into fake accounts was done by issuing credit notes.
CBI received information from its sources that L1 license holders were issuing credit notes to retail vendors with the aim of diverting funds to benefit government officials. In return, they were making fake entries in the accounts to show their records were correct. The accused Amit Arora, Director of M/s Buddy Retails Pvt. Ltd., Dinesh Arora and Arjun Pandey, who are very close to Manish Sisodia, are wrongly influencing the excise officials and getting liquor licenses given to different companies.
This is how money was transferred
Accused Sameer Mahendru, who is the MD of M/s Indo Spirits, has transferred Rs 1 crore to the account of M/s Radha Industries in UCO Bank located at Rajendra Place. Radha Industry belongs to Dinesh Arora, very close to Manish Sisodia. Dinesh Arora, who is very close to Manish Sisodia, means there is a doubt that the benefits have reached Manish Sisodia through Dinesh.
It is also written in the FIR that the accused Arun Ramchandra Pillai, through a person named Vijay Nair, used to wrongly collect money and send it to public servants i.e. excise officials. Arjun Pandey had once taken around Rs 2 to 4 crore from Indo Spirit owner Sameer Mahendru through Vijay Nair. Vijay Nair is said to be a mediator and close to these public servants (excise officers).
According to this FIR, Mahadev Liquors was also issued L1 license. Sunny Marwa is the authorized signatory in this firm. Also, Sunny Marwah is important because he also holds the post of director in companies which are related to late Ponty Chaddha. It has been told that Sunny Marwah was very close to the excise officials and often used to give them wrongful benefits.
In the initial investigation by CBI, all these accused-
- Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister (then)
- Arva Gopi Krishna, Former Excise Commissioner, Excise
- Anand Tiwari, former Deputy Commissioner Excise
- Pankaj Bhatnagar, former Assistant Commissioner, Excise
- Vijay Nair, former CO of Only Much Louder Company
- Manoj Rai, former employee of Pernod Record Company
- Amandeep, owner of Brindco Sprits
- Sameer Mahendru, owner of Indo Sprits
- Amit Arora, Director, MIs Buddy Retail Private
- M/s Buddy Retail Private Limited
- Dinesh Arora
- Mahadev Liquors
- Sunny Marwah,
- Arun Ramachandra Pillai
- Arjun Pandey
- Other unidentified public servants and private individuals
A case was registered against all these accused under sections 120B, 477 of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and its investigation was handed over to CBI officer Alok Kumar Shahi, DSP, ACB, CBI.
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