You have no role in this: Delhi court to ED on Arvind Kejriwal’s medical requests in jail

A Delhi court on Friday told the Enforcement Directorate that it cannot object to the requests made by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on his medical checkup in the city’s Tihar Jail, Bar and Bench reported.

Judge Mukesh Kumar made the remarks in response to an application from the Aam Aadmi Party chief to allow his wife, Sunita Kejriwal, to join his medical checkup via videoconferencing. The court asked the jail superintendent of the prison facility to respond to the chief minister’s application.

Arvind Kejriwal’s plea also requested that he be allowed to provide inputs on his health to the medical board constituted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after a court order in April.

At the hearing on Friday, the Enforcement Directorate, represented by advocate Zoheb Hossain, told the court that more time was required to respond to the Delhi chief minister’s application.

In response, the court said: “Accused [Arvind Kejriwal] is in judicial custody, not ED [Enforcement Directorate’s custody]. If he wants any relief, you have no role in this.”

Hossain requested the court to call for a report from the jail authorities about providing access via videoconferencing to Sunita Kejriwal.

“We will seek a reply from the jail but you have no role in this,” the court said, according to Bar and Bench.

The court will next...

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