The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's personal assistant Devender Sharma in connection with alleged corruption in formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped excise policy for 2021-22.
Sharma alias Rinku was summoned to the CBI headquarters here where he was questioned by officials of the anti-corruption branch, officials said.
The agency had arrested Sisodia on February 26 and he was sent to judicial custody by a special CBI court here till March 20. The Enforcement Directorate also questioned Sisodia at the Tihar jail here on Tuesday.
The CBI alleged that wholesale dealers were given undue profit margins under the influence of a 'south lobby', a coterie of Hyderabad-based businessmen and politicians, in the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22.