The Supreme Court docket won’t hear Arvind Kejriwal’s request searching for a 7-day extension of his interim bail in a corruption case linked to the Delhi liquor coverage. The Court docket final month granted interim bail to Mr Kejriwal to marketing campaign for the Lok Sabha elections and had requested him to give up on June 2, a day after the final leg of polling.
The Supreme Court docket registrar, whereas refusing the plea, stated that the Delhi Chief Minister was given liberty to maneuver trial courtroom for normal bail, and therefore this petition is “not maintainable”.
Mr Kejriwal had sought an extension on medical floor and requested the courtroom for an pressing listening to at present.
“In view of well being problems and elevated threat indicators, a medical examination is important to guard him from attainable long-term hurt to throughout his jail time period,” senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who’s representing Mr Kejriwal, stated within the petition. He had additionally harassed that the AAP chief will stay “seen and obtainable in public” whereas out on bail.
“There isn’t any threat of fleeing the authorized course of and situations set by Supreme Court docket (for interim bail) have been adopted…” Mr Singhvi stated.
The highest courtroom had on Might 10 granted 21-day interim bail to the chief minister, who was arrested in a cash laundering case linked to the excise coverage ‘rip-off’, to allow him to marketing campaign for the Lok Sabha polls.
It had directed that Mr Kejriwal to give up on June 2, a day after the final section of the seven-phase ballot will get over.
The probe company believes the Delhi Chief Minister performed a key function in drafting the now-scrapped coverage and searching for bribes, or kickbacks, in return for liquor licences. The company has claimed the AAP obtained kickbacks of Rs 100 crore that was then used to fund its Goa and Punjab election campaigns.
The AAP and Mr Kejriwal have refused all prices and known as the arrest and case “political vendetta”, coming because it did, weeks earlier than the election. The arrest additionally triggered a political spat between the ruling BJP and the opposition INDIA bloc, which is led by the Congress and of which the AAP is a member.
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