Supreme Court Reserves Verdict On Manish Sisodia's Bail Plea

Sisodia is facing probe from both agencies for allegedly benefitting private players by formulating the now-scrapped 2021-22 liquor excise policy.

With 493 witnesses to be examined in the CBI case and the trial yet to begin, the bench of justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan said, “Realistically, tell us with 493 witnesses, even if you drop 50% of the witnesses, do you see any end of the tunnel?”

To be sure, CBI has filed eight charge sheets against 57 accused and the trial court has so far taken cognisance of only four charge sheets. In the ED case too, 224 witnesses have been listed with 40 persons named as accused so far.