Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will remain in jail for now…
New Delhi:
While hearing the liquor scam case, the High Court said that the lower court did not use its mind while granting bail to Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case. The subordinate court judge should have given ample opportunity to the Enforcement Directorate to present its case while ruling on Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea.
After Kejriwal was granted bail by a lower court on June 20, the High Court stayed his release on Friday. Had the High Court not granted interim stay relief to the Federal Anti-Money Laundering Agency, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national coordinator Kejriwal could have walked out of Tihar Jail last Friday. He was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate.
The trial court, in its bail order, said prima facie Kejriwal’s guilt has not yet been proved and the ED has failed to produce any clear evidence of his association with the proceeds of crime in the money laundering case. Delhi’s lieutenant governor ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe alleged irregularities and corruption in the excise policy, which was subsequently scrapped in 2022.
On Tuesday, the Delhi High Court continued the interim stay on Kejriwal’s regular bail. Last Thursday, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court granted regular bail to Arvind Kejriwal in the Delhi Liquor Policy money laundering case. But on the application of ED, the Delhi High Court has put an interim stay on Arvind Kejriwal’s bail.
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