NEW DELHI: The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Monday upheld Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) within the corruption case stemming from the alleged excise coverage rip-off, dealing an enormous blow to the AAP chief. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna dismissed Kejriwal’s plea difficult his arrest, holding that it can’t be mentioned it was with none justifiable purpose.
The excessive court docket additionally disposed of the AAP nationwide convenor’s bail plea and granted him liberty to strategy the trial court docket for aid.
The excessive court docket had on July 17 reserved its order on his plea difficult his arrest by the CBI.
It had reserved the order on the AAP chief’s bail plea on July 29 after listening to the arguments of the counsel for Kejriwal and the central company.
Kejriwal was arrested by the CBI on June 26 from Tihar Jail, the place he was lodged in judicial custody in a related cash laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The chief minister, who was arrested by the ED on March 21, was granted bail by the trial court docket within the cash laundering case on June 20. Nevertheless, the trial court docket’s order was stayed by the excessive court docket.
On July 12, the Supreme Court docket granted him interim bail within the cash laundering case.
The excise coverage was scrapped in 2022 after the Delhi lieutenant governor ordered a CBI probe into alleged irregularities and corruption involving the formulation and execution of the excise coverage.
In keeping with the CBI and the ED, irregularities had been dedicated whereas modifying the excise coverage and undue favours prolonged to licence holders.
