Arvind Kejriwal’s problem to his arrest was dismissed by the excessive court docket yesterday
A day after the Delhi Excessive Courtroom dismissed his petition difficult his arrest within the liquor coverage case, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will method the Supreme Courtroom as we speak. The Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) chief’s counsel will elevate the matter earlier than Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud round 10.30 am and search an pressing listening to.
The excessive court docket yesterday dismissed Mr Kejriwal’s problem to his March 21 arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The court docket held that the central company was left with ”little choice” after the AAP chief skipped a number of summonses within the cash laundering case. It additionally pointed to the ED’s allegation that Mr Kejriwal was actively concerned within the use and concealment of alleged proceeds of crime.
The court docket careworn that there isn’t any separate protocol for a probe company to observe for questioning a typical man and a Chief Minister.
”Additional, this Courtroom holds that this Courtroom wouldn’t lay down two completely different classes of legal guidelines, one for widespread residents, and the opposite granting particular privilege to be prolonged by investigating company to a Chief Minister or another individual in energy solely on the idea of being in that public workplace since that public workplace is loved by that public determine as a result of mandate of the general public,” Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma stated in her assertion.
Responding to the excessive court docket judgment, AAP chief and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj stated the ED and the CBI didn’t discover even a rupee throughout their searches in reference to the Delhi liquor coverage case. ”They’re speaking about crores. However ED and CBI haven’t discovered even a rupee of unlawful cash. Witnesses have been pressured to alter their statements and say what ED needs them to,” he stated. ”This situation is just not about cash laundering. That is the most important political conspiracy in India’s historical past,” he stated.
Mr Bharadwaj additionally stated that the excessive court docket had denied aid to AAP MP Sanjay Singh on the identical grounds, however the Supreme Courtroom granted him bail. ”We hope Arvind Kejriwal, too, will get justice from the Supreme Courtroom,” he stated.
Earlier, Mr Kejriwal had approached the Supreme Courtroom a day after he was arrested, however later withdrew his petition to boost the matter within the trial court docket. This was on the identical day on which a Supreme Courtroom bench refused aid to Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief Ok Kavitha, additionally an accused within the liquor coverage case. The highest court docket had then stated it can not bypass protocol and requested Ms Kavitha to method the trial court docket.
Eighteen days and a court docket setback later, Mr Kejriwal is again earlier than the Supreme Courtroom for aid.
It’s alleged that the Delhi authorities’s liquor coverage, launched in 2021 and withdrawn the following yr, offered underneath advantages to liquor licencees. Following a advice from Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, the CBI began its probe into the allegations of irregularities. The ED is probing the cash path within the case. In addition to Mr Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister and senior AAP chief Manish Sisodia is in jail within the case. AAP MP Sanjay Singh, who was arrested in the identical case, is out on bail.