The Delhi High Court on Monday listed for August 7 the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) plea challenging bail granted to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam.The high court had earlier stayed the trial court’s June 20 order by which Kejriwal was granted bail in the case.
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, who was scheduled to hear the plea, was informed by the counsel for Kejriwal that the ED served them a copy of its rejoinder only late Sunday night and they need some time to file a reply to it.
He said the Supreme Court has granted interim bail to Kejriwal in the case on Friday and they will place on record the order copy. The lawyer urged the court to grant them 15 days for filing the rejoinder.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on August 7.
On June 20, Kejriwal was granted bail by a trial court here on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh.
The ED moved the high court the next day and contended that the trial court’s order was “perverse”, “one-sided” and “wrong-sided” and that the findings were based on irrelevant facts.
Opposing the ED’s petition, Kejriwal has said in his reply that he was a victim of “witch-hunt” by the probe agency and that cancellation of his bail granted by the trial court in the money laundering case would tantamount to “grave miscarriage of justice”.