Watch: AAP workers protest against CBI raids on Manish Sisodia, detained

Aam Aadmi Party workers gathered outside Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's house to protest against the CBI raids being conducted at his residence.

The workers have now been detained by the Delhi Police. Visuals from the location showed police putting AAP workers into buses.

The CBI on Friday carried out searches at the residences of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and IAS officer Arava Gopi Krishna besides at 19 other locations after registering an FIR in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, officials said.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered the FIR in connection with the alleged irregularities in formulation and execution of the Delhi Excise Policy brought in November last year, they said.

As part of the operation, the CBI teams reached 21 locations in seven states and UTs including the premises of Sisodia and former Excise Commissioner Krishna, a 2012-batch IAS officer from the AGMUT cadre, they said. Premises of two other public servants are also being searched.

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Last month, Delhi LG VK Saxena had recommended a CBI probe into the Kejriwal government's Excise Policy, 2021-22 over alleged violations of rules and procedural lapses.