New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday, July 7, attached assets worth Rs 52.24 crore of arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, his wife, and other accused as part of its ongoing probe into the alleged excise policy scam.According to a statement issued by the probe agency, the attached immovable assets were worth Rs 7.29 crore – two properties of Sisodia and his wife Seema; land and flats of accused Rajesh Joshi (director of Chariot Productions Media Pvt Ltd) and Gautam Malhotra.In movable assets worth Rs 44.29 crore, the bank deposits of Sisodia (worth Rs 11.49 lakh), Brindco Sales Pvt Ltd (Rs 16.45 crore) and others had been attached, the statement said. The agency said the total attachment in the case had now gone up to Rs 128.78 crore.The ED’s action comes a day after it arrested Delhi businessman Dinesh Arora, who is known to be close to Sisodia. Both the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are separately probing the alleged liquor scam.Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi Marlena accused the Union government of planting stories in the media to tarnish the image of Sisodia. “One of the two flats that the ED seized was bought by Manish Sisodia in 2005, that is 18 years ago. The other flat was bought in 2018, the ED itself says so in their documents. This is many years before the new excise policy was even made,” she said, according to NDTV.Sisodia was arrested by the ED in March and he is currently in judicial custody. The ED and the CBI allege that the excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders allegedly allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had paid bribes, a charge strongly refuted by AAP.