The Delhi court on Friday dismissed the bail plea of former Deputy Delhi Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the now-scrapped liquor policy scam.

A special CBI court in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue headed by M K Nagpal rejected the bail application of the senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader in a CBI case pertaining to the alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.

Sisodia’s bail plea was rejected by the court even after his lawyers argued that the central probe agency did not find any incriminating evidence against him during the investigation.

Earlier, the court extended the CBI custody of the former education minister of Delhi because it alleged that the minister didn’t cooperate with the CBI team during the interrogation. However, this time Sisodia’s lawyers argued that he cooperated in the investigation and none of the CBI’s searches revealed anything that would require his further custody.

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Opposing Sisodia’s bail plea, Advocate DP Singh, a special public prosecutor for CBI, said Manish Sisodia may not be a flight risk, but he is a definite risk who will destroy evidence. A person is a saint till his irregularities and illegalities are not discovered, he added.

The probe agency also claimed that Sisodia said he destroyed phones as he wanted to upgrade them but nothing of that kind happened.

Manish Sisodia is being separately interrogated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case linked to the Delhi liquor policy scam.

Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 and was later arrested by the ED in March 9 in Tihar Jail. Meanwhile, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court extended the judicial custody of Sisodia till April 5.

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The Gujarat High Court on Friday revoked the 2016 order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) directing the Gujarat University to reveal the details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s MA degree, stating that the information is not needed.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for asking for details of PM Modi’s college degree. The HC directed Kejriwal to deposit the fine with the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority within four weeks.

Responding to HC’s order and the fine imposed, Kejriwal tweeted, Does the country not have the right to know how educated their PM is? They vehemently opposed showing the degree in the court. Why? And those who demand to see their degree will be fined? What is this happening? Illiterate or less educated PM is very dangerous for the country, he added.

Judge Biren Vaishnav, a single judge, quashed the Chief Information Commission’s (CIC) order directing the PMO, Gujarat University, and Delhi University PIOs to provide information about Modi’s graduate and postgraduate degrees.

The Gujarat High Court held that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree and post-graduate degree certificates are not required to be provided by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

PM Modi’s election documents say he graduated from Gujarat University in 1978 and completed his Master’s degree from Delhi University in 1983.

Gujarat Police on Friday arrested eight people for putting up objectionable posters against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in different areas of Ahmedabad. The accused put up ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’ posters, a day after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched a nationwide campaign against PM Modi.

The Ahmedabad Police registered a case against the accused and said the posters were put up in the city in an unauthorized manner.

Following the arrest, Gujarat AAP chief Isudan Gadhvi accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of dictatorship and claimed that the arrests are a sign that the party is scared.

Gadhvi said, Look at the dictatorship of BJP! Aam Aadmi Party workers in Gujarat have been jailed under various sections of the IPC in connection with the posters of Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao! If this is not fear of Modi and the BJP, then what else? Try as hard as you want! Aam Aadmi Party workers will fight, he added.

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This comes a week after thousands of posters were put on the walls in the national capital targetting PM Modi. This created a massive uproar in the capital which led to the arrest of six people. Not only, this, the police also registered 49 FIRs in this case.

The Delhi Police stated that the posters were made for vandalizing government property. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal responded to the arrests and claimed that even the British did not arrest anyone who displayed anti-British posters during the independence movement.

He said no FIRs or action were taken by the Britishers against freedom fighters who used to put up posters against them. Bhagat Singh had pasted a lot of posters during the British rule, and not a single FIR was lodged against him, he said.

The AAP’s Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao campaign was launched in 11 languages across the country. Besides English, Hindi and Urdu, posters have been released in Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi as well.

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