Supreme Court to hear on June 26 Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging interim stay by Delhi HC on bail

The High Court on Friday issued an interim stay on a trial court’s order that had granted bail to Kejriwal a day earlier in the liquor policy case.

Supreme Court to hear on June 26 Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging interim stay by Delhi HC on bail

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The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will hear on Wednesday Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s decision to impose an interim stay on his bail in the liquor policy case, reported Live Law.

A vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti said that it will wait till the High Court order, which stayed the bail, is released before passing a judgement.

The bench also noted that it was unusual that the High Court did not release the order immediately, Bar and Bench reported. The bench also said that it will not make the same mistake the High Court made of passing an interim stay.

“In stay matters, judgements are not reserved but passed on the spot,” the top court said. “What has happened here is unusual.”

Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain of the High Court on Friday issued an interim stay on a trial court’s order that had granted bail to Kejriwal a day earlier. The High Court said that it is reserving the matter for a detailed order that will be pronounced in two to three days. The trial court’s bail order will be stayed in the meantime.

Vacation Judge Nyay Bindu of the Rouse Avenue Courts granted bail to Kejriwal on Thursday, however, the High Court halted the bail order...

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