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India Gazette
29-05-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
Delhi excise policy case: Court issues notice on Kejriwal's plea seeking NOC for passport renewal
ANI 29 May 2025, 17:47 GMT+10 New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has moved an application before the Rouse Avenue court, seeking NOC for renewal of his passport. His personal passport had expired in 2018. Special judge Dig Vinay Singh issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a response. The court listed the matter for further hearing on June 4. Counsel for Arvind Kejriwal submitted that his passport had expired in 2018. He was using his official passport being CM of Delhi. Now he is seeking a NOC for the renewal of his personal passport. He is seeking renewal of his passport for 10 years, his counsel said. During the hearing of the main case related to the Excise policy on Thursday, Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, K Kavitha and other accused persons appeared through video conferencing. The Central Bureau of Investigation said that it is ready for arguments on framing of charges. It was also submitted that the court has already said that no new application would be filed for the scrutiny of documents. However, some applications are still pending. Recently, the court has ordered that the CBI shall include all communications, notices issued and other documents in the list of unrelied documents. The CBI has already filed a charge sheet and supplementary charge sheets after its investigation. (ANI)
New Indian Express
29-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Delhi excise policy case: Arvind Kejriwal moves court seeking NOC for passport renewal
NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in the Delhi excise policy case, moved court on Thursday seeking a no objection certificate (NOC) for the renewal of his passport. Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh issued notice to Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and sought their replies by June 4, the next date of hearing. Kejriwal's counsel told the court that his passport expired in 2018 and he has moved the application seeking its renewal for 10 years. The CBI, meanwhile, told the judge that it is ready for arguments on framing of charges in the corruption case related to the alleged excise policy scam. While the corruption case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 is being probed by the CBI, a money laundering case is being investigated by the ED. The money laundering case stems from the CBI's FIR which was lodged after Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena recommended a probe into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of the policy. According to the CBI and the ED, irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy and undue favours were extended to the licence holders. The Delhi government implemented the policy on November 17, 2021, and scrapped it by the end of September 2022 amid allegations of corruption.
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Business Standard
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Delhi excise policy case: Arvind Kejriwal seeks NOC for passport renewal
Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in the Delhi excise policy case, moved court on Thursday seeking a no objection certificate (NOC) for the renewal of his passport. Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh issued notice to Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and sought their replies by June 4, the next date of hearing. Kejriwal's counsel told the court that his passport expired in 2018 and he has moved the application seeking its renewal for 10 years. The CBI, meanwhile, told the judge that it is ready for arguments on framing of charges in the corruption case related to the alleged excise policy scam. While the corruption case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 is being probed by the CBI, a money laundering case is being investigated by the ED. The money laundering case stems from the CBI's FIR which was lodged after Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena recommended a probe into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of the policy. According to the CBI and the ED, irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy and undue favours were extended to the licence holders. The Delhi government implemented the policy on November 17, 2021, and scrapped it by the end of September 2022 amid allegations of corruption. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Time of India
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Delhi excise policy case: Arvind Kejriwal moves court seeking NOC for passport renewal; ED, CBI asked to respond by June 4
Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in the Delhi excise policy scam, has applied to a Delhi court for an NOC to renew his passport, which expired in 2018, seeking a 10-year renewal. The court has sought responses from the ED and CBI by June 4. NEW DELHI: Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in the Delhi excise policy scam, on Thursday approached a city court seeking a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for the renewal of his passport. Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh issued notices to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), asking them to respond by June 4, the next date of hearing. Kejriwal's counsel informed the court that his passport had expired in 2018, and the AAP chief was seeking a 10-year renewal. CBI ready for arguments on charge framing Meanwhile, the CBI told the court it is prepared to argue on the framing of charges in the corruption case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22. While the CBI is probing the corruption angle, the ED is investigating the money laundering charges arising from the same FIR. The case stems from a complaint filed after Delhi Lt Governor VK Saxena recommended a probe into alleged irregularities in the implementation of the excise policy. According to investigators, undue favours were extended to liquor licence holders through changes made in the policy. The Delhi government had implemented the new excise regime in November 2021, but it was rolled back in September 2022 following allegations of corruption.
Indian Express
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Stuck for months, Delhi excise policy case finally moves forward
Over two-and-a-half years after it was registered, the corruption case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam has finally moved forward. On Thursday, after months of back and forth between the prosecution and the accused, Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue court finally resolved the issue related to scrutiny of documents – the case was stuck at this stage close to a year after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) completed its investigation, with 25 adjournments in the last 10 months alone. The contention was linked to some arguments, a list of which was requested by the accused from the prosecution. 'Thus, the answer to the main contention is that the notices/communications sent to others by CBI, or the responses/documents received from others cannot be claimed to be protected…even if incorporated in the case diaries, and the investigating agency may either rely upon those documents or list those documents in the list of URDs (unrelied documents) and the accused persons are entitled to a copy of the list of URDs only, and not the copies of URDs themselves. They can, however, inspect the URDs,' he said in his order dated May 22. Several accused had moved an application asking the agency to provide a complete list of 'unrelied upon' documents. Investigating agencies generally do not rely on all the documents that they have in their possession. Documents are bifurcated into two categories – 'relied upon' and 'unrelied upon'. While the former is useful to the prosecution during investigation, the latter may be helpful to the accused for defending themselves. The CBI had argued that it had provided all the 'relied upon' and 'unrelied upon' documents to the accused and that the latter were stalling the trial by moving applications. The agency had also urged the court to start arguments on the charge and stated that the accused persons could, meanwhile, inspect the documents. 'Arguments on charges will now proceed once the relied-upon digital evidence copy and the list of URDs are supplied to the accused individuals, as indicated above,' the judge added. It is only after the conclusion of arguments on charge that the trial in the case will begin. 'Let CBI incorporate such notices/communications/documents in the List of URDs, within 4 weeks, and supply a copy of the list to all the accused,' the court said. A year ago, then Special Judge Kaveri Baweja had blamed the accused for causing a delay in the trial by filing 'frivolous applications'. The court order had stated that 135 applications had been moved by 31 accused in the case. These applications were moved to get legible copies of the documents. She had directed the central probe agencies (both CBI and ED) to let the accused inspect the documents. Earlier, the contention of the accused was that they were not getting legible copies of the documents. They had also complained about the digital documents being incompatible with their devices. 'It cannot be emphasised enough that ongoing inspections of URDs by the accused do not obstruct the charge arguments, as the accused can inspect those URDs but cannot rely on any at this stage. The accused persons are free to seek appropriate remedies during the trial qua URDs,' judge Singh noted. Two cases have been registered in relation to the Delhi excise policy: one by the CBI and the other by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on alleged money laundering. Almost all top Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders in the national capital were once behind bars in relation to the excise policy case, including former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. The case arose out of a report submitted by Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar to Lieutenant Governor (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena in July 2022, pointing to alleged procedural lapses in the formulation of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22. The report pointed out that 'arbitrary and unilateral decisions' taken by Sisodia in his capacity as excise minister had resulted in 'financial losses to the exchequer' estimated at more than Rs 580 crore. The policy came into force in November 2021, but was scrapped in July 2022.
