Supreme Court seeks ED's response by April 24 on Arvind Kejriwal's arrest plea
Supreme Court serves notice to ED on Arvind Kejriwal's plea contesting arrest and remand in excise policy case. ED to reply by April 24, plea hearing set for week starting April 29.
SUPREME Court on Monday issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a plea of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by ED and his subsequent remand in the excise policy case.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta issued notice to the ED and asked the federal agency to file its response on or before April 24. Supreme Court posts the plea of Delhi CM on the week commencing from April 29.
The Delhi High Court had upheld the arrest of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader on April 9, arguing that the investigative agency was with "little option" after he skipped repeated summonses and refused to join the investigation.
ED arrested Kejriwal on 21 March in connection with alleged corruption and money laundering while formulating the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 which was later scrapped. The Delhi Chief Minister is lodged in Tihar jail at present.
