On Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to the Supreme Court, challenging the Delhi High Court's decision to suspend his bail order in the excise policy case.
CM Kejriwal's lawyers requested a hearing for Monday. Initially, the chief minister received bail in the alleged excise policy case from a Delhi court. However, the High Court stayed the bail pending its decision on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) plea challenging the bail.
"Until pronouncement, the operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed," stated Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain of the High Court vacation bench, noting that it would take 2-3 days to announce the order on ED's stay application.
During the hearing in the High Court on Friday, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, representing the Enforcement Directorate (ED), described the trial court's decision to grant bail to Kejriwal as "lopsided" and "one-sided."
Raju had argued,"Matter has been decided without considering the documents. Without considering the documents, how can you come to the finding that they are relevant or irrelevant."
On Thursday, Trial Court's vacation Judge Nyay Bindu granted bail to Kejriwal upon furnishing a bail bond of ₹one lakh. The court declined the ED's request to delay the bail bond process by 48 hours.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor was arrested by the ED on March 21 after ignoring nine summonses related to the agency's money laundering investigation into the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy case.
Kejriwal was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court on May 10 due to the Lok Sabha polls and was instructed to surrender on June 2. Additionally, he was directed not to visit the Office of the Chief Minister or the Delhi Secretariat.The excise policy was scrapped in 2022 following an order by the Delhi lieutenant governor for a CBI probe into alleged irregularities and corruption in its formulation and execution.
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