The CBI has registered a case against Delhi Government Dy.CM Manish Sisodia and 15 ors into alleged irregularities committed in the Excise Policy including in modifications in Excise Policy, extending undue favours to the lincencees, waviver/reduction in licence fee, extension of L-1 license without approval etc.
It was further alleged that Illegal gains on count of these acts were diverted to concerned public servants by private parties and making false entries in their books of accounts.
Searches are being conducted today at 31 locations including in Delhi, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Bengaluru which, so far, have led to recovery of Incriminating documents/articles, digital records etc.
The names of government officials and others in the FIR Arva Gopi Krishna, the then Commissioner (Excise), GNCTD of Delhi, Anand Tiwari, the then Deputy Commissioner (Excise), GNCTD of Delhi, Pankaj Bhatnagar, then Assistant Commissioner (Excise), GNCTD of Delhi, 10 liquor licencees, their associates & unknown others on a reference from MHA(GOI), the official note of CBI said on Friday.
As per FIR based on prima facie evidences, Dy. CM Sisodia, Arva Gopi Krishna, the then Commissioner (Excise), GNCTD of Delhi., Anand Tiwari, the then Deputy Commissioner (Excise), GNCTD Of Delhi and Pankaj Bhatnagar, Assistant Commissioner (Excise), GNCTD of Delhi were instrumental in recommending and taking decisions pertaining to excise policy for the year 2021-22 without approval of competent authority with an intention to extend undue favours to the licencees post tender.
Apart from the above, reliable sources have revealed that Sh Vijay
Nair, Former CEO of M/s Only Much Louder, an entertainment and event
management company, Shri Manoj Rai, Ex employee of Mis Pernod Ricard,
Sh Amandeep Dhal, Owner of Mis. Brindco Spirits & Sh Sameer Mahendru,
Owner of Mis. Inda Spirits are actively involved in irregularities in framing and implementation of excise policy of GNCTD of Delhi for the year 2021-22, the FIR said.
Source further revealed that some of the L-1 Licence holders are
issuing credit notes to retail vendors with an ab-intio intention to divert the
funds as undue pecuniary advantage to Public servants. In furtherance to
this, they are showing false entries in their books of accounts to keep their
record straight.
Source further revealed that Amit Arora, Director of M/s Buddy
Retail Pvt. Limited, 1402, Tower-15, Vipul Greens, Gurgaon, Haryana,
Dinesh Arora Rio Plot No.-139, Ill Floor, Block-A, Gujrawala Town, Phase-I,
Delhi, Arjun Pandey are close associates of Manish Sisodia and are
actively involved in managing and diverting the undue pecuniary advantage collected from Liquor Licensees to accused public servants. Source further revealed that Sameer Mahendru, MD, M/s lndospirits has transferred an amount of one crore to account no. 10220210004647 of Radha Industries maintained with UCO Bank, Rajendra Place, New Delhi. M/s Radha Industries is being managed by Dinesh Arora.
Source further revealed that Arun Ramchandra Pillai used to
collect undue pecuniary advantage from Sameer Mahendru, MD, M/s
lndospirit for onward transmission to accused public servant through Vijay Nair. A person named Arjun Pandey has once collected huge cash
amount of about Rs.2-4 crores from Shri Sameer Mahendru on behalf of Vijay Nair.
