New Delhi:

Manish Sisodia, former Delhi deputy chief minister, will likely be produced earlier than a CBI court docket at 2pm right now. The Aam Aadmi Party chief, who’s in CBI custody and being probed within the Delhi liquor coverage, has utilized for bail.  

Mr Sisodia faces corruption allegation in framing a liquor coverage for the nationwide capital, which was scrapped after Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena flagged it to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The 51-year-old was arrested by the CBI on Sunday night over alleged corruption within the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped liquor coverage for 2021-22. Jain is presently in Tihar Jail in a cash laundering case. They resigned from the Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday.

A day after his arrest, Mr Sisodia had challenged the CBI’s transfer within the Supreme Court. The court docket, nevertheless, instructed him he ought to have gone to the excessive court docket, after which Mr Sisodia withdrew his utility and stated he’ll go to the trial court docket.