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Enforcement Directorate Raids In Multiple States In Delhi Excise Policy Scam Case
6Sep By adminNo Comments
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Enforcement Directorate Raids In Multiple States In Delhi Excise Policy Scam Case

[ad_1] Around 30 premises in Delhi, Telangana, Maharashtra, Haryana, UP and Karnataka being searchedNew Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate today conducted searches at multiple locations spread across Delhi and five states as part of a money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy, officials said.Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and some bureaucrats have been named as accused in the alleged scam related to the Delhi excise policy, which has now been rolled back.Around 30 premises in Delhi, Telangana, Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka are being searched and private individuals named in the case are being raided, the officials said.But these do not include premises linked to Manish Sisodia or any other government servant, the...
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“You’re Intoxicated By Power”: Anna Hazare To Arvind Kejriwal On Delhi Liquor Policy Row
30Aug By adminNo Comments
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“You’re Intoxicated By Power”: Anna Hazare To Arvind Kejriwal On Delhi Liquor Policy Row

[ad_1] Anna Hazare was the face of the 2011 anti-corruption movement, from which AAP emerged. (File Photo)New Delhi: "Like liquor, power too intoxicates. You are intoxicated by power, it seems." This is one of many scathing lines in social activist Anna Hazare's letter to his former mentee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, over his government liquor licence policy, which was withdrawn in July after a corruption case."This is the first time I am writing to you since you became chief minister, because I am pained at recent news reports about your government's liquor policy," the letter, in Hindi, says at the outset."You had written idealistic things on liquor policies in your book 'Swaraj', for which you got me to write the introduction," he says, quoting from it that no liquor shops ...
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CBI Checks Manish Sisodia’s Bank Locker, He Is Present With Wife
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CBI Checks Manish Sisodia’s Bank Locker, He Is Present With Wife

[ad_1] New Delhi: Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia reached a Ghaziabad bank today for the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) search of his locker in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the capital's now-withdrawn liquor policy. Mr Sisodia, whose home was raided nearly two weeks ago, had said yesterday that "nothing will be found" in his locker. "Tomorrow, CBI will raid our bank locker. Nothing was found in the 14-hour raid at my house on August 19. Nothing will be found in the locker either. Welcome to CBI. My family and I will fully cooperate in the investigation," he tweeted in Hindi yesterday.Mr Sisodia, who also handles Delhi government's excise portfolio, is among the 15 accused named in the FIR filed by the CBI in the liquor policy case.The CBI...
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BJP Spent Rs 6,300 Crore On Toppling Governments, Claims Arvind Kejriwal
27Aug By adminNo Comments
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BJP Spent Rs 6,300 Crore On Toppling Governments, Claims Arvind Kejriwal

[ad_1] Arvind Kejriwal alleged BJP is using money collected through GST and hike in fuel prices to "poach" MLAs.New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday claimed that the Centre did not have to impose Goods and Services Tax (GST) on food items if the BJP had not spent a whopping Rs 6,300 crore on toppling governments of other parties in the country.Mr Kejriwal's remarks come a day after his called the BJP a "serial killer of state governments".During his address in the Delhi Assembly, Mr Kejriwal also alleged that the BJP is using money collected through GST and hike in petrol and diesel prices to "poach" the MLAs.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor on Saturday also alleged that the people are facing the brunt of price rise with the BJP spending crores of rupees...
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