Supreme Court To Hear Arvind Kejriwal’s Bail Plea Against CBI Arrest Today

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the bail pleas filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inside the excise policy case. Arvind Kejriwal is not easy the Delhi High Court’s decision that upheld his arrest inside the corruption case related to the alleged scam.

To recall, the suitable court had on August 23 allowed the CBI to file its counter affidavit inside the matter and gave two days to Kejriwal to file a rejoinder. Kejriwal has filed two separate petitions not easy the denial of bail and against his arrest by the CBI inside the case. He has challenged the August 5 order of the Delhi High Court upholding his arrest.

The AAP chief became arrested by the CBI on June 26. On August 14, the suitable court refused to grant intervening time bail to Kejriwal inside the case and sought a response from the probe agency on his plea not easy his arrest.

The Delhi High Court had on August 5 upheld the arrest of the chief minister as legal, and said there became no malice inside the acts done by the CBI which became in a position to demonstrate how the AAP supremo may per chance influence witnesses who may per chance muster the courage to depose handiest after his arrest.

The high court had asked him to move the trial court for regular bail inside the CBI case.

It had noted that the loop of evidence against the chief minister closed after the gathering of relevant evidence following his arrest by the CBI and this may never be said that it became with none justifiable reason or illegal.

It said Kejriwal is now now not a normal citizen but a distinguished recipient of the Magsaysay Award and the convenor of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration. The high court had brushed off Kejriwal’s plea not easy his arrest, saying it became handiest after sufficient evidence became collected and sanction became obtained in April 2024 that the agency proceeded with further probe against him.

It became noted that the links to the crime extended even to Punjab but subject material witnesses were now now not coming forward resulting from the influence exercised by Kejriwal by virtue of his position. It became handiest after he got arrested that the witnesses came forward to record their statements, the high court had said.

The chief minister, who became arrested by the ED on March 21, became granted bail by the trial court inside the money laundering case on June 20. Alternatively, the trial court’s order became stayed by the high court.