CBI files charge sheet against 7 in excise case

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed its first charge sheet in the Delhi excise policy case naming seven people, including Aam Aadmi Party communication strategist Vijay Nair, Abhishek Boinpally, a businessman who alleged lobbied for retail liquor licences for South India based companies, three other businessmen and two former officials of the excise department of Delhi.

Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who was named as accused in the CBI first information report (FIR) on August 17, has not been named in the charge sheet and investigation against him and others and into the alleged cartelisation of liquor trade in Delhi is “continuing”, the agency said. Supplementary charge sheets could be filed in future depending of the evi

dence, it added.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal called the case “fake”,

The accused have been charged for criminal conspiracy and corruption for their role in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi excise policy 2021-22

and said that attempts were being made to frame Sisodia