New Delhi [India], March 7 (HBTV): The Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday issued a notice to the persons accused in the Delhi excise policy money laundering case on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). 

ED alleges a delay in trial on the part of the accused persons. 

The agency moved a plea seeking directives to the accused persons to cooperate in the trial and prevent them from causing unnecessary delay in the commencement and conclusion of the trial. 

Special Judge M K Nagpal issued notice on the plea and directed the accused persons to file a reply. The matter has been listed on March 19, for further hearing. 

Meanwhile, the judicial custody of Aam Aadmi Party Member of Parliament Sanjay Singh and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has been extended till the next date of hearing. 

The court has allowed applications of accused persons seeking permission to inspect the documents in the office of the ED. 

The ED has stated that accused persons are filing applications pertaining to copies of the CCTV footage (both audio and video) of the interrogation proceedings during the period of their custody and even of other arrested accused persons without giving any substantive reason for seeking it, which is not maintainable at this stage before the framing of charges. 

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