After CBI searched the bank lockers of Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, he said that he got a clean chit from the agency as nothing was found from them.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday claimed that nothing was found in his bank locker after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) searched the locker in connection with the liquor scam. He said that he and his family got a clean chit. A team of about five CBI officials reached the PNB branch at Sector 4 Vasundhara in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of the national capital, to execute the search.
“Nothing was found in my bank locker today just like nothing was found at my residence during the CBI raid. I am happy that I have got a clean chit. The CBI officials treated us well, and we also cooperated with them. Truth has won,” Manish Sisodia said.
“CBI raided my house on Janmashthami. The keys of the lockers were seized by the CBI during the raids on August 19. Today, CBI opened that locker but found nothing. Jewellery amounting to Rs 70,000 to Rs 80,000 which belonged to my wife was found,” he said.
“The CBI officials searched our lockers and documents. But still they will arrest me soon because they have orders from the top,” the AAP leader said.
Sisodia was at the bank with his wife. He is among the 15 people and entities named in an FIR registered by the agency in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of Delhi government’s Excise Policy 2021-22.
Hitting out at the central government, Delhi’s education minister said, “Prime Minister sent a CBI team at my house and also to check my lockers. This is proof that me and my family are completely clean. There is pressure on PM Modi to send me to jail for two to three months. I am happy that nothing was found today and the truth has won.”
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“The CBI is welcome,” Sisodia had said in a tweet on Monday.
कल CBI हमारा बैंक लॉकर देखने आ रही है. 19 अगस्त को मेरे घर पर 14 घंटे की रेड में कुछ नहीं मिला था. लॉकर में भी कुछ नहीं मिलेगा.
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 29, 2022
CBI का स्वागत है. जाँच में मेरा और मेरे परिवार का पूरा सहयोग रहेगा.
On August 19, the federal probe agency had raided 31 locations, including Sisodia’s residence.
Sisodia has been saying he has been made an accused in a false case to stop the march of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has emerged as an alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
During a special session of the Delhi Assembly on Friday, the AAP leader had claimed that the BJP-led Centre is acting like a serial killer to eliminate state governments and described the CBI FIR against him as “fake” and based on “mere sources”.
