Reacting to the look out notice issued by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia retorted with, "Tell me where to come."
"All your raids have been failed. Nothing has been found. Misappropriation of even a single penny was not found. Now you have issued a look out notice that Manish Sisodia is not available. What is this gimmick, Modi ji? I am roaming freely in Delhi, tell me where to come? I can't find you?, Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi.
The latest CBI action against an Opposition politician has triggered a war of words between the BJP and the AAP with Congress also targeting the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.
Soon after Sisodia's latest tweet, Kejriwal jumped to his defence by tweeting, "at a time when the common man is battling inflation and crores of youths are unemployed, the central government along with all state governments should fight unemployment and inflation. Instead, they are fighting with the entire country. Every morning they wake up and start the game of CBI-ED. How will the country progress like this."
Earlier in the morning, the CBI issued look out circular (LOC) against 13 accused including Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. Sisodia is among the 13 people named as accused in an FIR registered by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of the excise policy.
The CBI has made Sisodia as accused number one in its FIR. The CBI's FIR has been lodged under sections 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) and 477-A (Falsification of accounts) of the IPC.
The allegations against Sisodia is that liquor businessmen were allegedly given exemption of Rs 30 crore.