A Delhi court on Friday discharged former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the excise policy case, observing that the prosecution failed to provide adequate evidence to support its allegations.Special Judge Jitendra Singh discharged former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and 21 others.The court refused to take cognisance of the CBI chargesheet in a corruption case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.The court said that the chargesheet had several lacunae not supported by evidence.The CBI has been probing alleged corruption in the formulation and execution of the erstwhile-AAP government’s now-scrapped excise policy.The case was probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had accused the leaders of playing a key role in alleged irregularities linked to the now-withdrawn excise policy.PTI inputs


