CBI searches at Manish Sisodia’s office. ‘They’re welcome,’ he tweets

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday tweeted that CBI officials were at his office as the probe continues in the excise policy case. “Today, the CBI has reached my office yet again.

They are welcome,” the AAP leader wrote on Twitter in a post, loosely translated from Hindi. “They had carried out raids at my home and office, searched my bank locker…. even went to go and search my village. They did not find anything against me… and won’t be able to as I have done nothing wrong. I have honestly worked to serve the education sector for the children in Delhi,” he further stressed.

The investigation in the Delhi excise policy case began last year after Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena recommended a CBI probe, citing discrepancies. It has been one of the many matters which intensified the sparring between the BJP and the AAP as the ruling party in Delhi alleged that it was being targeted. Several arrests have been made in the case while Sisodia was named as an accused.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has suggested multiple times that probe agencies were carrying out the investigation on the behest of the rival BJP. He has also said that hundreds of officers were engaged over months but nothing was found in the case. The investigation began months ahead of the crucial elections in Gujarat and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls; and the AAP had linked the investigation to the elections.

It had also said that the BJP was trying to topple an elected government in the national capital by using central agencies. Kejriwal had also claimed that attempts were made to approach his party’s MLAs while the BJP accused the AAP of corruption.

On Saturday, the AAP yet again lashes out at the BJP. “Once more CBI reached Manish Sisodia’s office. But they have not told what they have found during the last raids. After searches at home.