Decoding Delhi liquor ‘scam’ — charges & defence: Shekhar Gupta with Bhadra Sinha & Ananya Bhardwaj

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What exactly is the alleged Delhi liquor scam that has led to the arrest of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and MP Sanjay Singh of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)? In Ep 1324 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta brings in Senior Associate Editor Bhadra Sinha, who leads ThePrint’s legal coverage, and Associate Editor Ananya Bhardwaj, whose beats include the central investigation agencies and everything crime, to explain what the alleged scam is, its main ‘players’, where the investigation stands, and the AAP’s defence against allegations in the matter.

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Chapters:

03.42: What started the investigation?

08.00: The money question

15.00: The policy change

16.36: Key players

21.41: The ‘south group’

26.51: Case in Supreme Court
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[essm]

ThePrint's team & Mr. Gupta's favorable bias for AAP is crystal clear. Highlighting the word "Alleged" again & again! Amazing how the Liberals stick together for each other

[VikramKumar-rrd]

From this discussion, it looks that Print has given a clean chit to AAP! :)

[Smart_MakR]

Why has Manish Sisodia not given bail by the court if it does not find any evidence at this stage.

[nikthinks]

Main question is not asked : what are the proofs due to which Sisodia is not granted bail and is considered the chief architect.

[rajuiyer]

Good discussion.
Supreme court doesn't seem to be interested in electoral bonds case which is clearly legalised bribery.

[manoharkumar]

Finally you have talked about it, when Manish was arrested I thought you will talk but you didn't.

[ashutoshchandra]

Some soft corner is displayed for AAP by the way of framing questions but co-panelists were quite honest in their analysis. Destruction of mobile phones, missing cabinet notes, raising the margin of mafias from 5 % to 12% raises genuine doubts. This will be a classic case of bribery irrespective of proven guilty or not by court.

[mairadarling]

Thank you sir for bringing some sense of the whole alleged liquor scam to an understandable level of us common people.

[vijaykumarshah]

🎉 your ANALYSIS PROOVED HONESTY kattar Imandar ## A A P## good next PM. KEJRIKHAN. by chini money😮😮

[saipriyadharshinisairam]

An excellent attempt to absolve AAP in general and Arvind in particular. Mr. Gupta the common man knows that this policy change was done for election funding of AAP. That's it

[gedelasasibhushanarao]

Well explained synopsis of Delhi liquor scam. Thank you Sekarji for making the discussion meaningful with inputs from two lawyers

[siddharthillendula]

It was so annoying to hear Shekhar Gupta saying Allegedly allegedly allegedly .. it looked like he was trying to acquit the accused

[narinderkumardang]

Mr Shekhar...there is documented evidence that Tyagi was allowed to join Amit Arora firm..

This is the link...
आगे आगे देखिए होता है क्या?

Why your key SIX points don't include....
WHY Excise policy was WITHDRAWN...

Hope Mr Shekhar will respond.

[shridharaithal]

If you are looking for money in the barnk good luck. These crooks are smart (in a negative sense for lack of word) and would have erased all the traces of money just like the big fish kejriwal not signing any document even as a CM.

[ashishb]

Desparate to protest your AAP comrades

[MM-pmkg]

What if the kick backs happened before forming the government, for election expenses, with an understanding that AAP will make this arrangement in their favor?

[pavangupta]

Sad to see such a session from respected SG. Morally we all know that AAP has taken the money but legally it is complex to establish. Take example of andhra too. Agency could not do much in YSR case. So legally they keep themselves clean and people like SG comes to their support. Sad to see that normal public being looted. Why sisodia not granted bail after 5 months. Can someone explain?

[shivatrident]

*Lovely attempt of The Frint to exonerate Aam Amdani Party*

[appajirao]

Chatur Gupta ji,
Some questions you could have asked your colleagues.
1.What was the need for Amending the Liquor policy of Delhi.
2.Was this amendmenteant to reduce liquor consumption and thereby helping the public good.?
3.Why were some blacklisted dealers got the licence ?
4.What were the accused doing in the Taj hotel ?
5.Why was Kavita travelling in a chartered plane to Delhi ?
6.Why did South lobby get involved in the Liquor business of Delhi ?

[sajidisa]

Excellent discussion in which Shekhar ji went into all the right details. Really emlightening.