New Delhi: In a setback to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Supreme Court is not hearing today his challenge to Tuesday’s Delhi High Court ruling. The top court will open on Monday after the Eid holiday and the weekend and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader’s petition is expected to come up then.
Earlier in the morning, Kejriwal’s counsel, Senior Advocate Abhishek Singhvi, raised the matter before Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and sought an urgent hearing. The Chief Justice refused to specify if a hearing would be granted today. “We will see, we will look into it,” he said.
The High Court On Wednesday dismissed Kejriwal’s challenge to his March 21 arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to Delhi’s now-scrapped liquor policy. The court held that the central agency was left with “little option” after the AAP leader skipped multiple summonses in the money laundering case. It also pointed to the ED’s allegation that Kejriwal was actively involved in the use and concealment of alleged proceeds of crime.
The court stressed that there is no separate protocol for a probe agency to follow for questioning a common man and a Chief Minister.