ED acting with bias against Arvind Kejriwal in liquor policy case, says Delhi court in bail order

The Enforcement Directorate is acting with bias against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy case, a Delhi court said on Thursday in its order that granted bail to the Aam Aadmi Party leader, Bar and Bench reported.

Vacation Judge Nyay Bindu of the Rouse Avenue Courts granted bail to Kejriwal on Thursday. A day later, however, the Delhi High Court halted the bail order as it allowed an urgent hearing of a petition by the Enforcement Directorate.

In its bail order, the trial court had said that the Enforcement Directorate was unable to submit direct evidence that linked Kejriwal to the proceeds of the alleged crime, Live Law reported.

Earlier, the central law enforcement agency had told the court that an “investigation is an art and sometimes one accused is given [a] lollypop of bail and pardon and induced with some assurance to make them tell the story behind the offence”, according to Live Law.

The remarks were made in connection with an argument on the credibility of the approvers in the case.

The bail order, uploaded on Friday, said that the court had “to take a pause to consider this argument…because if it is so, then, any person can be implicated and kept behind the bars by artistically procuring the material against him after artistically avoiding/withdrawing exculpatory material from the...

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