A senior opposition leader in India jail for 19 days just on basis of allegation

Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 after an interrogation of more than 8 hours.

They took his computers, phone, all email data dump and kept him in jail on the pretext that they are analyzing the data.

They haven't found anything in 19 days and still a special judge extended his custody for 5 more days.

I have read through the live court hearing commentary and not even one time the judge asked about what the investigation agency was doing for last 19 days, what have they found so far and why they need to keep him in jail for more time.

Simply a court hearing for 30 minutes and this man will be in jail for 5 more days. Seems like the defence lawyer was pretty much talking to a wall in the court.

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/delhi-court-manish-sisod...

This is oversimplification. Not just on basis of allegation, but the material facts are open to see.

Excise duty on Liquor is a huge source of revenue for any government around the world. Mr. Sisodia was the powerful home minister and solely responsible for the Excise. The excise duty policies were manipulated to accrue benefits to some alcohol cartels, all led by politicians.

The changes in the policy is in public domain and the results of profiteering is clear to all. The result is not disputable, that dealers profited immensely and disproportionately at the cost of the state while the policy also promoted alcohol sales by extending hours of sales.

The profits were routed to multiple shell companies and distributed among a small cartel divided into the north group and south group of well connected politicians. Tracing of these funds is not so easy since the companies are usually headed by proxies.

The issue now is two fold - was there a conspiracy being probed by a federal agency. Second the money trail (money laundering) probed by a federal agency similar to the FBI and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

The crimes that Mr. Sisodia is accused of, have very stringent bail conditions, very similar to those in the US for multiple serious federal crimes.

Also, it does not help that Mr. Sisodia had used and disposed of >15 phones, setup a secret intelligence unit to snoop on political opponents and run a fiefdom that reported only to him within the government.

The most balanced position is not to politicise this too much. All politicians are corrupt and the corruption isn't that easy to uncover and prove.

Yeah, tell us something new.