Excise scam: Court extends ED custody of CBI's approver Arora by 6 days

July 12, 2023 00:44

A court in Delhi on Tuesday extended by six days the Enforcement Directorate custody of businessman Dinesh Arora in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise scam.

Arora had been on November 16 declared an approver in a corruption case related to the alleged scam being probed by the CBI.

Special judge MK Nagpal extended Arora's ED custody till July 17 after he was produced before the court on the expiry of his four-day custodial interrogation granted earlier.

Seeking the businessman's custody for seven more days, the federal probe agency told the court that his interrogation was required to unearth a larger conspiracy in the matter.

Arora was arrested under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act late on the night of July 6 after a long session of questioning.

Sources said he was evasive in his replies and was not cooperating with the agency following which he was arrested.

He was allegedly a close associate of Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia who is also an accused in the excise policy case and has been arrested by the ED as well as the CBI.

The ED, in a supplementary charge sheet, has accused Sisodia of receiving bribes from Amit Arora, another businessman also an accused in the case, through Dinesh Arora.

The federal probe agency has described this bribe amount as "proceeds of crime" under PMLA. -- PTI

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