‘Will you re-arrest CM?’: Delhi HC on ED petition to cancel Kejriwal's bail
Hindustan TimesThe Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the Enforcement Directorate if it intended to arrest chief minister Arvind Kejriwal again in the money laundering case registered in connection with the Delhi excise policy. Taking note of the Supreme Court’s July 12 order granting interim bail to the Aam Aadmi Party chief, a bench of justice Neena Bansal Krishna asked ED what would happen even if the court cancelled the bail granted to the CM by the trial court on June 20. Responding to the court’s query, Gurnani argued that the Supreme Court, while granting interim bail to the CM, had not declared the arrest as “illegal.” Opposing the request, Kejriwal represented by senior advocate Vikram Chaudhari said that the probe agency’s petition was “sheer persecution” and “a classic case of illusion in the world ED lived in.” Read Here | 'Bibhav Kumar, CM Kejriwal were together at crime scene': Delhi Police charge sheet in Swati Maliwal assault case Considering the contentions, the court expressed displeasure with the ED’s request but adjourned the petition for September 5. The federal agency’s petition said that the bail order was passed without granting adequate opportunity to the probe agency to oppose CM’s plea, despite all courts up to the Supreme Court giving judicial imprimatur regarding the commission of the offence of money laundering against the accused in the excise policy case. Citing Supreme Court’s July 12 order granting interim bail to Kejriwal in the ED case, the probe agency in its reply said that multiple courts all the way up to the top court have held that there was material against the former which shows that there are reasons to believe that he was guilty of the offence of money laundering.