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Special Judge Kaveri Baweja of Rouse Avenue Court has also set the next date for further arguments regarding the framing of charges against the accused in the case.

Last week, Sisodia withdrew his interim bail plea to campaign for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Sisodia, the former deputy chief minister of Delhi, was produced before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja of Rouse Avenue Court on the expiry of his previously extended judicial custody.

Sources said the AAP national convenor approached the top court seeking an urgent hearing of his petition after a high court division bench headed by Justice Suresh Kumar Kait refused to grant him interim protection. 

The agency may arrest him or take him to its office in central Delhi for questioning, sources said, even though there was no official word on the agency's likely course of action.  

The action is part of a money laundering investigation focusing on alleged bribes that were garnered through irregularities in the DJB tendering process and purportedly channelled as election funds to the AAP, they said

Special judge M K Nagpal also extended the judicial custody of Sisodia till February 22 after he was produced before the court on the expiry of his remand granted earlier

Special Judge M. K Nagpal at Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the application for February 2, 2024.

He asserted that to this day, not a single party MLA or leader has been bought or broken.

The Delhi Police brought the former Deputy Chief Minister to meet his wife as permitted by the Rouse Avenue court on Friday

Sisodia has been in custody since Febraury and is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enfoecement Directorate (ED).

The list includes the names of Delhi CM and AAP's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, AAP MP Sanjay Singh, party leader Manish Sisodia and other party leaders

The court instructed counsels representing accused individuals like Kuldeep Singh, Vijay Nair, Sameer Mahendru, Rajesh Joshi, and others to review unused documents related to the Delhi Excise policy case at the CBI Headquarters. The case was adjourned until November 22.

The top court said merely because some lobby or pressure groups had sought a certain policy change does not imply there was corruption or commission of crime unless an element of bribery was involved.

SC remarked that the case will flatten in the trial court when the two questions will be asked in the cross-examination by the defence lawyer raising doubt on the evidence.

In the previous hearing, Singhvi informed the court that there was urgency in the matter as Sisodia was seeking interim bail due to his wife's serious health condition

"She has appeared twice. If she is busy, we will extend the date by another 10 days," submitted Additional Solicitor General SV Raju.

Initially, a bench consisting of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S.V.N. Bhatti mentioned that it might consider the pleas for a hearing either later in the day or on a different date.

On Tuesday, the judge had allowed an application moved by Sisodia seeking to release money from his MLA fund for developmental work in his constituency Patparganj.

We are proud of Manish Sisodia. He worries about the people of his constituency even while being in jail, Kejriwal said in a post on X