High Court On Kejriwal’s Bail Plea: Cannot Be Said It Was Without Any Justifiable Reason

The Delhi High Court has rejected Arvind Kejriwal’s plea to dispute his arrest in the excise policy case, ruling that the arrest was indeed justified.

New Delhi: On Monday, the Delhi High Court rejected the petition filed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who’s also the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party( AAP), concerning his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation( CBI) in connection with a corruption case related to the liquor policy.

Court’s Decision

A bench, led by Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, stated,” It can not be said that the arrest was without any justifiable reasons or was illegal.”
The high court ruled on Arvind Kejriwal‘s bail application, denying it, and allowing him the occasion to petition the trial court rather.

 
Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, was taken into custody by the Central Bureau of Investigation( CBI) on June 26 while he was being held in Tihar Jail under judicial custody due to a linked money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate( ED).

Before, he’d been arrested by the ED on March 21. Although the trial court had granted him bail in the money laundering case on June 20, the high court halted the trial court’s decision.
Later, on July 12, the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in the money laundering case.

 What happened in the court?

During the proceedings, lawyers Abhishek Manu Singhvi, N. Hariharan, and Ramesh Gupta appeared on behalf of Kejriwal and contended that his arrest by the CBI was a strategic move, described as an” insurance arrest,” following the interim bail granted by the Supreme Court in the ED case.

They emphasized that not only was the policy signed by Kejriwal, but also by then LG Anil Baijal, and thus, they argued that the former LG and the bureaucrats involved in the process should also be intertwined in the case.
He argued that Arvind Kejriwal and other leaders of the AAP have been accused by the CBI and ED of allegedly furnishing favourable treatment to a specific group of businessmen and politicians within the former Delhi excise police, allegedly in exchange for effects.

On the other hand, CBI Special Public Prosecutor( SPP) has alleged that Kejriwal played “sutradhar ” in the entire scam and emphasized that there’s direct evidence implicating him. The prosecutor also highlighted that the trial court had formerly ruled that the arrest wasn’t illegal, indicating that the inquiry agency has moved past the stage of contesting the legitimacy of the detention in the lower court.

He also presented information claiming that C Aravind, an IAS officer working under Manish Sisodia, witnessed that Vijay Nair had brought a copy of the excise policy to be entered into the computer, with Arvind Kejriwal present at the time. According to the CBI, this evidence suggests that Kejriwal was directly involved.

Kejriwal was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21. In May, the Supreme Court granted him interim bail until June 1 in consideration of the general elections. He ultimately surrendered on June 2.