New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Former cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh on Friday welcomed a Delhi court’s order discharging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, and senior party leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case.The Rouse Avenue Court discharged Kejriwal, Sisodia and 21 others, holding that the CBI chargesheet did not establish any overarching conspiracy, criminal intent or evidence of bribery and quid p…
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New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said the trial court’s discharge of former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the Delhi excise policy case marked a significant setback to what he described as the Centre’s “political misuse” of investigative agencies.Vijayan, who is in Delhi to take part in the party politburo meeting due to his busy schedule, spoke to Kejriwal over the phone.In a statement issu…
Hyderabad, Nov 27 (IANS) Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha said on Friday that BRS lost the elections because of the arrogance of its leaders and the party’s failure to keep its promises.She was reacting to her brother and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao’s post after she was acquitted by a Delhi court in the Delhi excise policy case.“Am I the reason for the loss?” asked Kavitha while interacting with the media.She said that the reason for the defeat of…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Former Delhi BJP President and MP Manoj Tiwari said on Friday that the celebrations in the AAP may be short-lived as the CBI’s appeal in the Delhi High Court may overturn the trial court’s decision offering a reprieve to Arvind Kejriwal in the “liquor policy scam”. Addressing a press conference, Tiwari said that the law cannot be misled for long by destroying evidence.Delhi BJP Media Chief Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that the people of Delhi know very well that f…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) A Delhi court, on Friday, acquitted all the 23 accused, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in the excise policy case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), saying that the prosecution failed to establish even a prima facie case or raise a “grave suspicion” warranting the framing of charges. In a detailed order running into more than 1,100 paragraphs, Special Judge (…
Chandigarh, Feb 27 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab’s legislator and spokesperson Kuldeep Dhaliwal, on Friday, hailed the decision of Special Delhi Court in which party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia were acquitted in the liquor scam case. Dhaliwal said the court’s decision on Friday has proved that the entire case concocted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to eliminate the Aam Aadmi Party was a deep-rooted political conspiracy. La…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in his first presser after getting a clean chit in the ‘Liquorgate’ case, launched a frontal attack at the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing them of hatching a conspiracy to annihilate the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He also demanded that the duo apologise to the people of Delhi for implicating him and AAP leaders in a false case, and dared the Centre to conduct fresh Assembly elections to …
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the Rouse Avenue Court’s order discharging all 23 accused, including AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in the 2022 Delhi excise policy case.The central agency has filed a criminal revision petition challenging the trial court’s detailed order, which had refused to frame charges in the corruption case and held that the prosecution fai…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and 21 others were acquitted on Friday by a city court in the high-profile state excise policy case. Delhi’s Rouse Court Avenue Court judgment came after a nearly two-year-long legal battle that had dominated headlines and influenced the national capital’s political climate.The court verdict has elicited sharp political reactions with opposition parties accusing the ruling Bharatiya…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) A Delhi court on Friday discharged all 23 accused, including AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in the excise policy case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), holding that the prosecution failed to establish even a prima facie case or raise a “grave suspicion” warranting the framing of charges. In a detailed order running into more than 1,100 paragraphs, Special Judge (PC Act) Jitendra Singh …