excise policy

New Delhi, March 30 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has moved the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court order that acquitted Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in cases related to alleged non-compliance with summons in connection with the...

New Delhi, March 28 – Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said on Saturday that Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has once again resorted to the petty politics of playing the "victim card," this time over a judicial matter related to the excise policy.He said that in India...

New Delhi, March 27 Delhi Cabinet Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said in the Assembly on Friday that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report concerning the now-scrapped excise policy has exposed the “deliberate policy manipulation” under the previous government led by Arvind Kejriwal...

Bhubaneswar, March 26 – The Odisha Government has announced a new three-year Excise Policy, which will be effective from April 1, 2026, to March 31, 2029.The state excise department has moved from an annual to a three-year excise policy, intending to provide enhanced stability, uniformity, and...

Hyderabad, March 23 Telangana Prohibition and Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao launched a scathing attack on the opposition BRS on Monday, questioning its moral right to criticize the state's current excise policy.Intervening in the budget discussion initiated by BRS MLA T Harish Rao in the...

New Delhi, March 23 A report of the Delhi Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) tabled in the House on Monday said that losses amounting to Rs 890 crore were incurred due to the failure to re-tender liquor shops, while another Rs 144 crore was lost due to the waiver of license fees under...

New Delhi, March 18 The Delhi government has extended the existing excise regime for a year, citing the ongoing work on a new liquor policy, officials said on Wednesday.The city government's excise department, in an order on Tuesday, extended the renewal and granting of new retail liquor...

New Delhi, March 16 – The Delhi High Court on Monday postponed the hearing on a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging a trial court order that acquitted AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and 21 others in the...

New Delhi, March 9 The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the response of former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, and 21 others to a petition filed by the CBI challenging the trial court's discharge of the accused in the liquor policy case.Justice Swarana Kanta...

New Delhi, March 9 – The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and 21 others in response to a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging their discharge in the Delhi...

New Delhi, March 9 The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the response of former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, and 21 others to a petition filed by the CBI challenging the trial court's order discharging them in the liquor policy case.Justice Swarna Kanta...

New Delhi, March 9 – Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Delhi High Court on Monday that the order issued by the trial court discharging AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and 21 others in the 2021-22 excise policy case was "perverse" and...

New Delhi, March 1 Forty-eight hours after being discharged by a Delhi court in the liquor policy case, AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday, claiming that the countdown of the BJP's removal from power has...

New Delhi, February 28 A day after former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was discharged in the liquor policy case, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal accused the BJP on Saturday of "weaponising" the law to target opposition leaders.The senior advocate urged the Supreme Court to direct the...

New Delhi, February 28 – Senior advocate Kapil Sibal welcomed the Delhi court's decision to acquit former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and several others in the CBI's excise policy case on Saturday, calling it "a very important decision" and...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has appealed to the Delhi High Court, challenging the acquittal of Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal, party leader Manish Sisodia, and others in the corruption case related to the Delhi liquor policy. This move comes hours after the trial...

New Delhi, February 27 – Former cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh welcomed a Delhi court's order on Friday that acquitted Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and senior party leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in...

New Delhi, February 27 Courts cannot allow a narrative to replace the discipline of evidence, and however serious the allegations may appear, they must withstand scrutiny under established legal principles, a judge said on Friday while discharging Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha and 22...

New Delhi, February 27 – Former Delhi BJP President and MP Manoj Tiwari said on Friday that the celebrations by the AAP may be short-lived, as the CBI's appeal in the Delhi High Court could overturn the trial court's decision, offering Arvind Kejriwal a reprieve in the "liquor policy scam"...

New Delhi, February 27 Following the Delhi court's acquittal of former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy case, the Congress said on Friday that it was a "predictable move" from the BJP, and proceedings against its "allies," including AAP and others, will quietly disappear...