Delhi Excise Policy Case: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a case related to alleged corruption in formulation and implementation of Delhi Excise Policy. Businessman Dinesh Arora has been arrested on Thursday night in connection with the money laundering probe. The ED has arrested Dinesh Arora in a money laundering case related to alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of Delhi’s now abolished excise policy. The matter is also being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Arora has been made an approver in its case. After a long interrogation, Arora was arrested under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The agency is expected to produce them in a local court on Friday.

Let us tell you that ED has already questioned Dinesh Arora. Sources said that this time he was giving evasive answers to the questions and was not cooperating with the agency after which he was arrested. The businessman is reportedly close to former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia, who is an accused in the excise policy case. He has been arrested by both ED and CBI. This policy has now been revoked.

CBI plea to make Dinesh Arora approver accepted

)The ED, in a supplementary chargesheet, has accused Sisodia of receiving bribe from businessman Amit Arora, another accused in the case, through Dinesh Arora. A Delhi court on November last year allowed the CBI to make Dinesh Arora an approver in the case. The plea was accepted and he was pardoned. This is perhaps the rarest or the first case in which an accused-turned-external witness in a CBI case has been arrested by the ED while both the federal agencies are probing the same case.

Aam Aadmi Party denied the allegation

In this case by ED it is the 10th arrest in which he has filed five charge sheets so far including the charge sheet against Sisodia. ED and CBI have alleged that 4261- The Delhi government’s excise policy favored some liquor dealers, who allegedly paid bribes for the same. The ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi has denied this allegation.