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Arvind Kejriwal strikes Supreme Court docket in opposition to his arrest in liquor coverage case after Excessive Court docket setback

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Arvind Kejriwal’s problem to his arrest was dismissed by the excessive courtroom yesterday

A day after the Delhi Excessive Court docket dismissed his petition difficult his arrest within the liquor coverage case, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will strategy the Supreme Court docket right this moment. The Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) chief’s counsel will elevate the matter earlier than Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud round 10.30 am and search an pressing listening to.

The excessive courtroom yesterday dismissed Mr Kejriwal’s problem to his March 21 arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The courtroom held that the central company was left with “little choice” after the AAP chief skipped a number of summonses within the cash laundering case. It additionally pointed to the ED’s allegation that Mr Kejriwal was actively concerned within the use and concealment of alleged proceeds of crime.

The courtroom confused that there is no such thing as a separate protocol for a probe company to observe for questioning a standard man and a Chief Minister.

“Additional, this Court docket holds that this Court docket wouldn’t lay down two completely different classes of legal guidelines, one for frequent residents, and the opposite granting particular privilege to be prolonged by investigating company to a Chief Minister or some other individual in energy solely on the premise of being in that public workplace since that public workplace is loved by that public determine as a result of mandate of the general public,” Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma stated in her assertion.

Responding to the excessive courtroom judgment, AAP chief and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj stated the ED and the CBI didn’t discover even a rupee throughout their searches in reference to the Delhi liquor coverage case. “They’re speaking about crores. However ED and CBI haven’t discovered even a rupee of unlawful cash. Witnesses have been pressured to alter their statements and say what ED desires them to,” he stated. “This challenge just isn’t about cash laundering. That is the largest political conspiracy in India’s historical past,” he stated.

Mr Bharadwaj additionally stated that the excessive courtroom had denied aid to AAP MP Sanjay Singh on the identical grounds, however the Supreme Court docket granted him bail. “We hope Arvind Kejriwal, too, will get justice from the Supreme Court docket,” he stated.

Earlier, Mr Kejriwal had approached the Supreme Court docket a day after he was arrested, however later withdrew his petition to boost the matter within the trial courtroom. This was on the identical day on which a Supreme Court docket bench refused aid to Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief Okay Kavitha, additionally an accused within the liquor coverage case. The highest courtroom had then stated it can not bypass protocol and requested Ms Kavitha to strategy the trial courtroom.

Eighteen days and a courtroom setback later, Mr Kejriwal is again earlier than the Supreme Court docket for aid.

It’s alleged that the Delhi authorities’s liquor coverage, launched in 2021 and withdrawn the subsequent 12 months, offered beneath advantages to liquor licencees. Following a suggestion from Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, the CBI began its probe into the allegations of irregularities. The ED is probing the cash path within the case. In addition to Mr Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister and senior AAP chief Manish Sisodia is in jail within the case. AAP MP Sanjay Singh, who was arrested in the identical case, is out on bail. 


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