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Kejriwal was detained by the CBI on the evening of 24 June, following the High Court's reversal of the Rouse Avenue Court vacation bench's decision to grant bail to the Chief Minister. Kejriwal had filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the high court's ruling but withdrew the application within hours.
On Monday, Arvind Kejriwal approached the Delhi High Court challenging his arrest and CBI remand related to the alleged liquor policy scam. The Chief Minister, then in judicial custody on charges of corruption and money laundering, sought relief from what he deemed as unlawful detention.
The Rouse Avenue Court had authorized the CBI to question Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal regarding the defunct liquor excise policy. He was scheduled to appear before Special Judge (PC Act) Amitabh Rawat.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court had overturned the vacation bench's decision at the Rouse Avenue Court, which granted bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the defunct liquor excise policy case. Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain opined that the trial court's assertion of 'malafide intentions on the part of the ED' was incorrect.
On the other hand, Sanjay Singh accused the CBI of misleading the Supreme Court, alleging that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest was a tactic to keep political opponents in jail. Singh claimed the ED and CBI were tools of the Central government.
Singh further alleged that whenever Kejriwal was granted bail, the ED intervened and the Centre orchestrated his arrest by the CBI before he could secure bail from the Supreme Court.
The Delhi CM was arrested on March 21st this year and obtained Supreme Court bail for campaigning but faced challenges in subsequent appeals. He finally received regular bail from a trial court on June 20th.
Notably, the Rouse Avenue Court had criticized the ED for bias and failure to directly link Kejriwal to proceeds of crime in the excise policy case, which involved corruption and money laundering allegations concerning Delhi's 2021-22 excise policy, subsequently scrapped.
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