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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has moved Supreme Court of India challenging the Delhi High Court's dismissal of his petition against his arrest by the CBI in the liquor policy scam case.

CBI has termed Kejriwal as the 'sutradhar' (mastermind) of the policy scam. 

Senior Advocate AM Singhvi mentioned the petition before CJI Chandrachud led bench, which asked for an email to be sent.

High Court's single judge bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna held, “The arrest of Arvind Kejriwal by the CBI was legal”. 

The Rouse Avenue Court had authorized the CBI to question Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal regarding the defunct liquor excise policy.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh has 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 has 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 by the ED and obtained Supreme Court bail for campaigning but faced challenges in subsequent appeals.

ED's case against Kejriwal & allies involves allegations of corruption and money laundering in the formulation and execution of Delhi's excise policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped.