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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday the 19th of August 2022  conducted searches at the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and several other locations in different states in connection with the alleged scam in the recently withdrawn excise policy of the Aam Adami Party government.

Late in the evening Manish Sisodia told reporters that he and his family had cooperated with the CBI, which he claimed was “being misused” by the Centre, on a day when the investigative agency carried out raids at multiple locations in connection with a case linked to the AAP government’s previous excise policy.
The CBI had reached the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader’s residence earlier in the day.

Raids were conducted at 30 other locations, according to the agency.
Speaking to the reporters after the CBI officials left after a 14-hour-long raid, Sisodia said, “CBI team came this morning.

“They searched my house and seized my computer and phone. My family cooperated with them and will continue to cooperate. We have not done any corruption or wrong. We are not afraid. We know that CBI is being misused,” said the deputy chief minister of Delhi.
Sisodia was among 15 persons booked in an FIR filed by the CBI. Excise officials, liquor company executives, dealers along with some unknown public servants and private persons have been booked in the case.
The FIR said that “facts in the matter prima facie disclose the commission of offences” punishable under section 120-B, 477A IPC and section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988″ against the accused
While the BJP leaders attacked the AAP government over “liquor corruption” and the Congress leaders backed the CBI action, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the probe agency “will find nothing” in their searches.
CBI said their raids (or searches) were conducted at 31 different locations including in Delhi, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Bengaluru.

According to CBI sources many incriminating documents, articles and digital records were recovered from Friday’s raids even as investigations are underway.