A businessman also an accused in the Delhi liquor policy case will be the government's witness in the case against Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the Central Bureau of Investigation told a city court on Monday, reports ndtv.com

Dinesh Arora was granted bail by a Delhi court last week and the CBI had not opposed it.

Today, the CBI filed a petition in a city court saying Arora would be their witness.

The CBI had said businessman cooperated with investigators and gave key information.

The Delhi government had come out with a new policy for liquor selling. The Lieutenant Governor red-flagged it over alleged corruption.

The Arvind Kejriwal government cancelled the new policy and returnerd to the old one.

Kejriwal said the AAP government lost thousands of crores because of Lieutenant Governor's intervention, which happened before the new policy could show results.

Sisodia on Saturday had claimed his personal assistant was arrested after the ED failed to find anything during the raid on his house and alleged that the BJP was behind the development.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday questioned Sisodia's personal assistant in connection with its money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the now scrapped excise policy, officials said.

Sisodia claimed the ED had arrested personal assistant.

The AAP leader said in a tweet in Hindi, "They registered a fake FIR and raided my house, checked my locker and made enquiries at my village but nothing was found. Today they got the ED to raid the house of my PA and when nothing was found he was arrested.

"The BJP people! So scared of elections."

Officials said the agency was questioning Devendra Sharma and recording his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena in July recommended a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the implementation of Delhi's Excise Policy 2021-22.