The AAP leader, who also holds the charge of the Excise department ! Delhi liquor scam.

The AAP leader, who also holds the charge of the Excise department, was earlier questioned on October 17 last year and his home and bank lockers were also searched in connection with the case.

He has not been named as an accused in the charge sheet as the investigation against him and other suspects is still going on.

On Saturday, the CBI issued summons to Sisodia based on the fresh evidence available against him. It is in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy for the national capital.

DELHI LIQUOR SCAM

Lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena recommended a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the formulation and execution of the Delhi Excise Policy, which was brought out in November last year. After a probe was recommended, the Delhi government was forced to withdraw its liquor policy and brought back private players into the market.

The CBI had registered an FIR in a special court in August last year against Sisodia and 14 others under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 477A (falsification of records), and section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which deals with taking undue advantage to influence a public servant by corrupt or illegal means or by the exercise of personal influence.

The federal agency has alleged that the Delhi government's policy to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP.

The CBI's FIR against Manish Sisodia in the case states that he and other public servants accused in the case took decisions pertaining to the excise policy 2021-22 without the approval of competent authority with "an intention of extending undue favours to the licensees post tender".

According to the FIR, at least two payments in crores were allegedly made to "close associates" of Sisodia by Sameer Mahendru, the owner of Indospirit, one of the liquor traders involved in irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy.

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