Manish Sisodia is the deputy chief minister in the Delhi government. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - India’s federal investigating agency arrested a top local minister in the capital territory of New Delhi late on Sunday in connection with alleged irregularities in a liquor policy, the most high-profile arrest in the case so far.
Mr Sisodia was arrested in an ongoing investigation in “a case related to alleged irregularities in framing & implementation of the excise policy”, the CBI said in a release. “Manish is innocent. His arrest is dirty politics,” Mr Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi’s chief minister and head of the Aam Aadmi Party said in a tweet hours after Mr Sisodia’s arrest.
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