Justifying Kejriwal’s arrest in the case, the ED had told the court that he was the mastermind and main conspirator in the case.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce its judgement on Friday on an appeal filed by Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate and subsequent remand in the 2022 Delhi liquor policy scam case.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta in May, this year had wrapped up the proceedings after hearing the arguments for four days on behalf of Kejriwal and the Enforcement Directorate.
During the hearing, the bench went through the records of the case and asked the ED to submit a chart to show what new evidence had emerged after arrest of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to justify its decision to arrest Kejriwal.
Kejriwal was aggrieved with the Delhi High Court’s April 9 order which dismissed his plea against arrest and remand in the case.
He was arrested on March 21.
On May 10, the Supreme Court had granted interim bail to Kejriwal in case, for election campaign till June 1. He was separately arrested by the CBI on June 26, after his surrender.
Appearing for ED, Additional Solicitor General S V Raju told the court that the agency formally made AAP and Kejriwal as accused in the Delhi excise policy case in the eighth chargesheet in the liquor case.
The ED also led by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta claimed before the court that it discovered the alleged chats between Kejriwal and some hawala operators regarding the alleged proceeds of crime in the case, related to transfer of money.