New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs has given a go-ahead to the CBI to probe Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the Feedback Unit (FBU) snooping case.
Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena approved the CBI’s request for the sanction to prosecute and forwarded it to the MHA.
The central agency in its report had claimed that a snooping unit was created after the AAP came to power in Delhi in 2015 for political intelligence gathering. Sisodia heads the Vigilance department of the Delhi government.
It was alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal moved the proposal in a Cabinet meeting in 2015, but no agenda note was circulated. No sanction from the L-G was taken for appointments to the FBU and the unit started functioning in 2016 with a provision of Rs 1 crore for secret service expenditure, the CBI said.
Terming the move as ‘cowardly’, Sisodia said making false cases against the rivals is the sign of a weak person. “Many more cases will be filed against us as the Aam Aadmi Party grows,” he tweeted.
Notably, he had sought time from CBI last Sunday to appear for questioning in the liquor policy case as he was giving the final touches to the Budget. He has been called again this Sunday.
