Court extends Sisodia’s ED custody for five more days

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Manish Sisodia’s custody was extended by five days on Friday by a local court after the ED sought a week more to investigate allegations against him linked to the Delhi liquor case.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader had argued that the ED questioned him “only for 30 minutes to one hour every day” and did not need to keep him in jail any longer.

Earlier, Sisodia had complained to the court that the CBI asked him the “same questions everyday”, after which the agency was ordered not to repeat its questions.

WON’T LET RAHUL SPEAK IN LS WITHOUT APOLOGY: BJP

New Delhi: Amid chaos in Parliament, leading to adjournment of both houses for the second consecutive day, sources in the BJP on Friday said they won’t let Rahul Gandhi speak in the house unless he apologises for his remarks on Indian democracy in London. Both Houses were adjourned again on Friday.

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Online trolling of CJI: Oppn leaders seek urgent action

New Delhi: Alleging interference with the course of justice, 13 Opposition leaders wrote to President Droupadi Murmu requesting immediate action against the online trolling of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud.

The letter is written by Congress MP Vivek Tankha and is supported by party MPs Digvijaya Singh, Shaktisinh Gohil, Pramod Tiwari, Amee Yagnik, Ranjeet Ranjan, Imran Pratapgarhi, Aam Aadmi Party’s Raghav Chadha,

Shiv Sena (UBT) member Priyanka Chaturvedi and Samajwadi Party’s Jaya Bachchan and Ram Gopal Yadav. Tankha has also separately written to Attorney General of India R Venkataramani on the same issue.

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DIG CONG’S BREACH OF PRIVILEGE NOTICE OVER PM’S REMARKS

New Delhi: Taking a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s over his “unfortunately I am MP” remark, Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday said that sometimes truth comes out and it is really “unfortunate” that he is an MP.

New Delhi: Congress leader KC Venugopal on Friday gave Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar a breach of privilege notice against PM Narendra Modi over his remarks on why former PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s family did not use his surname. The PM’s remarks were made during his reply to the motion of thanks on the President’s address.

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Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Moscow on a state visit on Monday for crucial talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during which he is expected to pitch for peace talks to end the raging Ukraine conflict.

The court also allowed the former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi to sign cheques for household expenses.

Sisodia has been in jail since February 26, when he was arrested by the CBI over alleged corruption linked to a new liquor policy that was scrapped within nine months. More on P7

LAHORE HC GIVES IMRAN PROTECTIVE BAIL IN NINE CASES

Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday granted former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan protective bail in nine cases registered against him in Lahore and Islamabad, eight of which were registered under terrorism charges.

7 PEOPLE, INCLUDING TRIBAL LEADER, GUNNED DOWN IN PAKISTAN’S BALOCHISTAN PROVINCE

Karachi: Seven people, including a tribal leader, were killed in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province after armed men opened fire at the vehicle they were travelling in, police said on Friday. The victims included tribal leader Ahmed Khan Kibzai.

New Delhi: Seeking further seven days custody of Manish Sidodia, ED’s lawyer Zoheb Hossain stated that the AAP leader needed to be confronted with his secretary C Arvind, senior excise policy officials, and with over 1.23 lakh emails and other digital data. “There are some fresh findings pertaining to parts of investigation revealed by one Alok Srivastava from the excise department. Sisodia needs to be confronted with C Arvind. He needs to be confronted because of new revelations made by Srivastava. We have taken multiple statements of Sisodia, confronted him with officials who were present in all Group of Ministers (GoM) meetings,” Hossain told the court.

Mail dump of 1.23 lakh mails needs to be analysed and confronted with the arrestee.

—Zoheb Hossain, ED’s lawyer

India Beat Aus In 1st Odi

KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja during the first ODI between India and Australia at the Wankhede Stadium, in Mumbai, on Friday. An unbeaten 75-run innings by KL Rahul helped India defeat Australia in a low-scoring contest. —PHOTO BY PTI

RTDC STARTS CHOPPER JOYRIDES Gehlot rewrites history, gives 19 districts, 3 divisions to Raj!

Yogesh Sharma, Naresh Sharma and Aishwary Pradhan

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Pushkar Development Authority will be constituted for overall opment of Tirthraj Pushkar. Moreover, de- cost household electricity connection after the completion of the Centre’s Saubhagya Yojana will be provided household connections at a cost of Rs 1000 crore Un-

Mission while 3 lakh families of 8 towns and 1473 villages of Udaipur, Pratapgarh, Chittorgarh and Rajsamand dists will be provided water connections at a cost of Rs 4674 crore. Turn to P12