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Central Bureau of Investigation officials searched Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s locker in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad on Tuesday, chaos reigning outside the bank as camera crews jostled with each other and curious crowds gathered to see what was happening.
A team of about five Central Bureau of Investigation officials reached the PNB branch at Sector 4 Vasundhara in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of the national capital, to execute the search, officials said.
Sisodia was at the bank with his wife.
The Aam Aadmi Party leader is among the 15 people and entities named in an FIR registered by the agency in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of Delhi government’s Excise Policy 2021-22.
“The CBI is welcome,” Sisodia had said in a tweet on Monday.
“Tomorrow, the CBI is coming to check our bank locker. They did not find anything during a 14-hour-long raid at my residence on August 19. They won’t find anything in the locker too. The CBI is welcome. My family and I will extend full cooperation in the probe,” the deputy chief minister said in his tweet in Hindi.
कल CBI हमारा बैंक लॉकर देखने आ रही है. 19 अगस्त को मेरे घर पर 14 घंटे की रेड में कुछ नहीं मिला था. लॉकर में भी कुछ नहीं मिलेगा.
CBI का स्वागत है. जाँच में मेरा और मेरे परिवार का पूरा सहयोग रहेगा.
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 29, 2022
