Supreme Court is set to pronounce verdict on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy on Friday, July 12.
A two-judge bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta had reserved the verdict on May 17.
The SC bench had clarified that Kejriwal will be entitled to move the trial court for bail notwithstanding the fact that the Supreme Court has reserved judgment and without prejudice to the parties’ contentions.
The AAP national convenor was granted interim bail by the top court till June 1 for campaigning in view of the Lok Sabha elections. He had surrendered on June 2.
On June 20, Kejriwal was granted bail by Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh. The ED had moved the high court the next day and contended that the trial court’s order was “perverse”, “one-sided” and “wrong-sided” and that the findings were based on irrelevant facts.
On June 21, the Delhi High Court had granted an interim stay on the trial court’s bail order to the AAP national convenor. On June 26, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested the Delhi chief minister in the excise policy-related corruption case.
Earlier in the day, the Delhi High Court listed for hearing on September 9 Kejriwal’s petition challenging the summonses issued to him by the ED in connection with its probe into an excise policy-linked money laundering case.
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