ED uses Arvind Kejriwal case to push for stringent checks on grant of interim bail
The HinduThe Directorate of Enforcement has used Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea for liberty to pitch hard for stringent checks and balances on the grant of interim medical bail to accused facing money laundering charges, saying only a case of intolerable grief and suffering should justify temporary release. Mr. Kejriwal surrendered before Tihar Jail authorities on June 2, 22 days after the Supreme Court, in an unprecedented order, granted him interim bail to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections till June 1. The Supreme Court Registry had recently declined to even list for judicial hearing Mr. Kejriwal’s application for a seven-day extension of his interim bail to take a PET-CT scan. In its response to Mr. Kejriwal’s interim bail plea before the Special Court, the ED, represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, had argued that his claim of “unexplained weight loss is false and appears to be a concocted theory”.