ED gets Home Ministry's nod to prosecute Kejriwal, Sisodia in excise policy case
PTC News Desk: The Enforcement Directorate has been granted Home Ministry's approval to prosecute former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in excise policy case.
The Ministry's decision comes after Delhi Lt. Governor VK Saxena had given his nod to prosecute the former Delhi Chief Minister in the case.
The sanction order against these Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders were received earlier this month in a fresh development to the case pertains to the alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy for 2021-22.
The development is significant as a special PMLA court in Delhi had delayed the framing of charges against Arvind Kejriwal after he challenged the trial court's decision to take cognizance of the chargesheet in the absence of specific sanction for prosecution under PMLA.
Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has filed a chargesheet against Arvind Kejriwal under the Prevention of Corruption Act, received the necessary sanction for prosecution in August of last year.
This decision follows the Supreme Court's ruling on November 6, which mandated that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) must also obtain prior sanction for prosecution under Section 197(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code (now Section 218 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita) in money laundering cases, similar to the requirement for the CBI.
- PTC NEWS
