Delhi judiciary has made an order on the official duty of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear in court until April 23 in conjunction with the case of the excise policy. Kejriwal did not appear physically in court but attended the hearings virtually. Further, the court forwarded the judicial remand of the co-accused K Kavitha and made the bondage coincide.
The 55-year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor has been in Tihar jail since his Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand ended. The ED arrested Arvind Kejriwal on March 21 following the high court’s refusal to grant him protection from coercive action by the central agency.
The ED was issued with a supplication from the SC on the FIR filed by Kejriwal, who challenged his arrest by evening. Hon’ble Justices Justice Khanna and Justice Datta fixed a later date of April 24 for ED’s reply and hearing from the week commencing April 29.
On the 9th of April, the Delhi High Court issued an order in line with the police complaint filed by Kejriwal against Corrupt officers using his now all-famous ‘Lokpal’ tactic, which would see him being arrested if he didn’t show up in three days to join the ongoing investigation, that is, after he failed to appear in front of the investigating agency nine times before. The court made a decision regarding the AAP leader’s petition filed to challenge his arrest and put him into the custody of the ED.
The exposition entailed claims of corruption and money laundering, profiling the process of creation and implementation of the excise policy for Delhi in the year 2021-22, which was eventually overturned.
This is the first time in history that the penal process has shown its power over a sitting CM. His other colleagues from the same case comprise Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, both now under judicial custody for the offence. Just lately, AAP MP from Rajya Sabha, Sanjay Singh, who was in the jail of Tihar these days, after being granted bail from the Supreme Court.
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