New Delhi: Major ongoing cases include Delhi’s liquor policy case in which former Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia is facing charges. On Saturday, he went to Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court, where the judicial remand was produced to July 15. Earlier, the court had granted further custody for Sisodia and other accused till July 6, which caused his last court hearing.
On the same note, the Delhi High Court has given CBI one week to reply to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea in the scrapped excise policy case. The court is expected to set the next date of hearing on July 17. As for the beginning, the court sided with CBI claiming that the appropriate request should be sent to the trial court, but later on issued a notice to hear the matter during the arguments.
Kejriwal was prompted to file the plea in the wake of the high court order, which sought a response from the CBI to the arrest and the remandation of the AAP chief. The bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna demanded that CBI must respond within 7 days to address Kejriwal’s argument that his arrest was avoidable.
Counsel for Kejriwal stated that his arrest by CBI was a ploy to ensure that he did not get released from the ED prime money laundering case. Earlier, the Delhi court itself had granted him bail on June 20 for the reason that there is no direct evidence linked to him, but a bench during the vacation on June 25 turned down this decision, stating that there were certain procedural issues and material produced by ED.
Kejriwal, in his bail petition, stated that his arrest had been deliberately made and tactfully planned by the accused since the case was registered two years back for his arrest. He defended the actions against him as harassment masked under other intentions and said that the timing and manner of the arrest of the accused showed obvious ill intent.
The aforementioned legal processes highlight controversies regarding political individuals in Delhi and the dilemmas of the legal and political practices in the framework of the prominent cases.
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