Delhi Court Rejects Interim Bail for CM Arvind Kejriwal in Excise Policy Case

Delhi Court Rejects Interim Bail for CM Arvind Kejriwal in Excise Policy Case

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal filed an interim bail request on Wednesday, requesting seven days’ parole due to medical grounds, but it was denied by the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi. In connection with a money-laundering case involving the now-canceled Delhi excise policy, Arvind Kejriwal is being held at Tihar jail.

Arvind Kejriwal was virtually presented before the Rouse Avenue court, and his judicial custody was prolonged till June 19. The chairman of the Aam Aadmi Party must undergo the necessary medical examinations, the court further ordered the appropriate authorities.On June 7, the court will consider Arvind Kejriwal’s request for default bail in this matter. To campaign in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Kejriwal was jailed in March and granted a three-week interim bail. The election ended on June 1st, and the next day, he was back in pre-trial custody.

Until June 5, Arvind Kejriwal was placed in judicial custody by the Rouse Avenue Court on Sunday. Duty judge Sanjeev Aggarwal stated that Arvind Kejriwal turned himself in at Tihar Jail under the Supreme Court’s orders. The Enforcement Directorate was requesting judicial custody of the chief minister of Delhi in an application that was being heard by the court. The application was not yet processed because Arvind Kejriwal was out on bail. The court heard an application from ED asking for a 14-day extension of judicial custody. On May 20, the ED filed the motion when Kejriwal was free on Supreme Court-granted temporary bail.

In response to Arvind Kejriwal’s new request for seven days of release, the court has deferred its decision on June 1. In light of the impending Lok Sabha elections, the Delhi High Court denied his request for release from custody on April 9 and rejected his claim of political retaliation. On June 4, the AAP leader Manish Sisodia’s bail requests in the charges brought by the ED and CBI regarding the purported Delhi liquor policy scam were turned down by the Supreme Court.

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But the highest court said Sisodia could reopen his bail requests once the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Department (ED) submit their respective charge sheets and final prosecution complaints in the instances involving alleged money laundering and corruption. The ED’s equivalent of a charge sheet is a prosecution complaint.