Excise policy cases: SC to hear Manish Sisodia’s bail pleas on August 5
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, July 29, said it would hear on August 5 pleas filed by AAP leader Manish Sisodia, seeking bail in corruption and money-laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.

The matter came up for hearing before a bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan.

Additional Solicitor General SV Raju told the bench that while the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed its response to Sisodia’s plea, it had not come on record.

He said the counter-affidavit of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was ready and would be filed soon.

Raju also raised preliminary objections to Sisodia’s pleas and said it was the second special leave petition challenging the same Delhi High Court order.

“The same order can’t be challenged twice,” the law officer said.

Sisodia had earlier moved the apex court, challenging the Delhi High Court’s May 21 order dismissing his bail pleas. He had challenged in the high court a trial court’s April 30 order rejecting his bail applications in the two cases.

He was arrested by the CBI on February 26, 2023, for his alleged role in the liquor policy case.

The ED arrested him in the money-laundering case stemming from the CBI FIR on March 9, 2023.