New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday questioned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at Tihar Jail and recorded his assertion relating to the excise coverage case. At present, the CBI will current him earlier than the Rouse Avenue Courtroom. This comes forward of the Supreme Courtroom listening to on the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) chief’s attraction towards the keep on his bail by the Delhi Excessive Courtroom.
The Supreme Courtroom is ready to listen to Arvind Kejriwal’s attraction towards the suspension of his bail on Wednesday. A trial court docket had beforehand granted bail to Kejriwal.
On June 20, the trial decide granted Kejriwal bail within the cash laundering case. The next day, the ED filed an pressing petition with the Excessive Courtroom to problem the bail determination. After listening to each side intimately, the Excessive Courtroom reserved its determination on the ED’s request to cease the bail and put a keep on Kejriwal’s launch till it points its order.
On Tuesday, Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj expressed concern over the Delhi Excessive Courtroom’s determination to remain the trial court docket’s bail order for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with out first reviewing the trial court docket’s ruling. He claimed it to be ‘very uncommon.’
The lawyer representing the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) additionally commented on X, stating that the Modi authorities’s ways indicated a concern of Arvind Kejriwal’s launch. “”The soiled methods of the Modi authorities fears the discharge of Arvind Kejriwal by SC has requested to CBI to make arrest in the identical matter nearly a yr after he joined the investigation. What it reveals nothing modified the vindictive mindset of BJ. Disgrace,” he wrote.
In line with sources from the CBI cited by ANI, it’s anticipated that the Delhi CM will probably be formally arrested within the case earlier than the court docket right this moment.
BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva whereas speaking to ANI prompt that Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi, and Sanjay Singh ought to increase questions with Congress, because the case beneath investigation by the CBI originated from a criticism lodged by Congress.
Sachdeva stated, “CBI has already interrogated Arvind Kejriwal on this case. Manish Sisodia has additionally been arrested by the CBI in the identical case.” He added that the AAP leaders ought to ask Rahul Gandhi why they didn’t withdrew their criticism after they shaped an alliance for the elections.
On March 21, the Delhi Excessive Courtroom declined to offer safety from arrest to Kejriwal in response to his petition contesting the summonses issued towards him. Shortly after this determination, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested the AAP chief.
The Supreme Courtroom on Could 10 granted interim bail to Kejriwal till June 1 to allow him to marketing campaign within the Lok Sabha elections. Nonetheless, the court docket specified that he would want to give up and return to jail on June 2.
Following his give up, the trial court docket accredited his bail on June 20. However the Excessive Courtroom stayed the order on June 21 after ED’s pressing petition, even earlier than the bail order was formally issued.
