Arvind Kejriwal withdraws plea from SC challenging HC’s interim stay on bail, to file fresh petition
The Aam Aadmi Party chief will challenge the final stay order passed by the Delhi High Court on Tuesday denying him bail in the liquor policy case.
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Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday withdrew his petition filed in the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s interim stay on a trial court order granting him bail in the liquor policy case, Bar and Bench reported.
A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti on Wednesday allowed the request to withdraw the petition and permitted the chief minister to file a fresh plea after his counsel said that he would like to challenge the final stay order the High Court had passed on Tuesday.
“Events are overtaking us every day,” Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Kejriwal, told the court, reported The Indian Express. “The judgement has come which has all kinds of issues, including a remarkable point that the High Court order was binding, in which your lordships have given leave and granted us liberty to apply for bail.”
Singhvi added that on Wednesday the Central Bureau of Investigation also arrested Kejriwal in a 2022 notice for interrogation. He said that the politician has been rearrested while facing charges under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act by the Enforcement Directorate.
On June 20, vacation Judge Nyay Bindu of the Rouse Avenue Courts had granted bail to Kejriwal. The High Court, however, issued an interim stay on the order on the next day as...
