Embattled Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s interim stay on a trial court’s order granting him bail in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.
One of the lawyers of the chief minister said that they will be seeking urgent listing of the petition on Monday.
The high court on Friday paused the Kejriwal’s release after the trial court granted him bail on June 20.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21, could have walked out of Tihar jail on Friday had the high court not granted the interim stay relief to the federal anti-money laundering agency.
“Till the pronouncement of this order, the operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed,” a vacation bench of the high court had said and asked the parties to file written submissions by June 24.
The high court had listed the plea for hearing on July 10.
The court had said it was reserving the order for two-three days as it wanted to go through the entire case records.
It also issued a notice to Kejriwal seeking his response to the ED’s plea challenging the trial court’s June 20 order by which he was granted bail.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju, appearing for the ED in the high court, had contended that the trial court’s order was “perverse”, “one-sided” and “wrong-sided” and that the findings were based on irrelevant facts. The relevant facts, he claimed, were not considered by the special judge.
