Contemplating making AAP an accused in Delhi excise policy cases: CBI, ED tell SC
New Delhi (PTI): The CBI and ED told the Supreme Court on Monday they are contemplating making the city's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) an accused in the Delhi excise policy cases.
Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, representing the two probe agencies, told a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti he has instructions to state that the agencies are considering making AAP an accused, invoking legal provisions on "vicarious liability" and section 70 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
However, the bench asked Raju to clarify his stand on Tuesday on whether there will be separate charge against the AAP in cases being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate.
Raju made the statement while the bench was hearing the bail pleas of AAP leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who was arrested in the excise policy cases being probed by the CBI and ED.
The investigative agencies have often suggested that AAP was a beneficiary of the kickbacks received from stakeholders who got liquor licences as part of a quid pro quo. They have alleged the AAP used the money for campaigning in the Goa assembly elections.
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Train coach catches fire near MP's Chhatarpur; no casualty
Chhatarpurr (PTI): A coach of the Gita Jayanti Express train caught fire on Sunday morning in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district, an official said.
No casualty was reported and the fire was immediately controlled, he said.
The train coach caught fire at around 7.30 am near Ishanagar police station, 25 km from the district headquarters.
The incident delayed the train for about one hour, station master Ashish Yadav said.
The train had a two-minute halt at Ishanagar station.
As the train moved ahead, railway staffers witnessed smoke coming out of D5 coach of the Gita Jayanti Express (11842), which runs between Kurushetra and Khajuraho and, stopped it, the official said.
The railway staff immediately controlled the blaze using fire extinguishers, he said.
The fire broke out possibly due to heating of rubber in the lower part of the coach, Yadav said.
There was no damage to the coach, he added.
