From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate, a financial probe agency, has been asked by the CBI to look into the allegations of the money laundering in alleged corruption in the liquor policy adopted by Delhi government to open up the liquor business to private parties.
A CBI official said the agency has already shared the FIR it registered in the case with the Enforcement Directorate. It also summoned some of the accused while others will be summoned after examining the documents and the bank transactions in the case, he said.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is carrying with him Sisodia on a 2-day tour of Gujarat to make inroads into the fiefdom of PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. In a tweet, Kejriwal said he is taking Sisodia with him to explain AAP’s promise for guarantee of education and health by setting up better schools, better hospitals and Mohalla clinics in Gujarat alike Delhi, where all will get better education and treatment, free of cost.
Both will be in Gujarat’s Himmatnagar on Monday and Bhavnagar on Tuesday. This will be Sisodia’s first trip outside since the CBI raid at his home on Friday in connection with the alleged corruption in Delhi excise policy.
