Excise scam: Sisodia seeded e-mails to show approval

One-liner: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday told a Delhi court that AAP leader Manish Sisodia, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam, had planted fabricated e-mails to show that there was a public approval for the policy.

Bail opposed: The agency made the submissions before Special Judge M K Nagpal while opposing the bail application of the former Delhi Deputy CM.

Suited his agenda: "We have evidence that Sisodia had e-mails planted. These have been received not only in the official e-mail account of the Excise Dept but even in his personal e-mail account. The content of the e-mails was given by Sisodia which suited his agenda," the counsel for the ED told the court.

Directions to send e-mails: The directions to send these pre drafted e-mails were given to Zakir Khan, Chairman of Delhi Minorities’ Commission, who then asked his interns to send these e-mails, the ED told the court.

No need for secrecy: The ED’s special public prosecutor then told the judge that the agency wanted to show him the case diary, at which the defence counsel said that it should not be done so in secrecy.

Probe at crucial stage: The ED had on April 5 told a Delhi court the investigation in the money laundering probe against Sisodia in the case was at a crucial stage and it had found fresh evidence of his complicity.