The Indian Express (Delhi Edition)
Kejriwal moves HC for bail in corruption case by CBI
CHIEF MINISTER Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court for bail in the corruption case filed by the CBI, which is linked to the now-scrapped excise policy.
Kejriwal's counsel mentioned the matter before a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, seeking its listing on Thursday. The bench, however, listed the bail plea for hearing on Friday.
On Tuesday, the High Court issued notice to the central agency over the Chief Minister’s plea challenging his arrest by the CBI, and a June 26 trial court order that remanded him to threeday CBI custody. The High Court listed the matter for the next hearing on July 17.
On June 25, Kejriwal was questioned by CBI in Tihar jail,
where he was in judicial custody in connection with the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED’S) money laundering probe pertaining to the excise policy.
On June 26, the CBI placed Kejriwal under “formal” arrest in the corruption case and produced him before the Rouse Avenue court of Special Judge Amitabh Rawat. The agency sought his custody for five days to confront him with the evidence in the conspiracy case linked to excise policy. Sending the Chief Minister to three-day CBI custody, Judge Rawat said that his arrest was “not illegal” and that the agency should not be “overzealous”.
On June 29, the trial court sent Kejriwal to judicial custody until July 12 as his three-day custody ended.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the ED in a money laundering case linked to the excise policy. On June 25, the Delhi High Court held a trial court order granting him bail in the ED case.
The next day, Kejriwal withdrew his plea in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s decision to reserve its verdict on the ED plea to stay the trial court bail order.
On Tuesday, the High Court issued notice to the central agency over the Chief Minister’s plea challenging his arrest.