New Delhi: The Delhi high court will hear on Tuesday Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation and its remand in a corruption case related to the liquor policy allegations.
On June 26, before the Supreme Court was to hear Kejriwal’s plea against the Delhi high court’s stay on his bail, the CBI formally arrested the Aam Aadmi Party national convenor. Vacation judge Amitabh Rawat said that at that stage the arrest could not have been said to be illegal, but according to LiveLaw, asked the CBI “not to be over zealous.”
Notably, Kejriwal was already in jail over the Enforcement Directorate’s case on the same excise policy matter.
Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21. Aside from interim bail to campaign for the elections, he and other top leaders of the party which is in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party – which controls the ED and CBI – have been in jail in connection with various cases for prolonged periods.
The CBI’s corruption case keeps Kejriwal behind bars even if he gets bail on the ED’s case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Kejriwal is in judicial custody in the corruption and money laundering cases related to the alleged scam.
On June 29, vacation judge Sunena Sharma remanded Kejriwal to judicial custody because the CBI did not ask for further remand.
