Arvind Kejriwal To Move Supreme Court After Delhi HC Rejects Plea Against Arrest In Liquor Policy Case

The announcement came moments after the Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected Kejriwal’s petition challenging his arrest by the ED in the Excise Policy money laundering case.  

AAP sources said that Arvind Kejriwal can go to the Supreme Court tomorrow itself.

Source : PTI

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will move the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court order dismissing his plea against arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the money laundering case linked to now scrapped Delhi Liquor Policy case, Aam Aadmi Party said on Tuesday.

Senior AAP leader and Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the party didn't agree with the Delhi HC's decision and will go to the Supreme Court.

"We do not agree with the court's decision today. We will go to the Supreme Court against it," Saurabh Bhardwaj said after the HC dismissed Kejriwal's plea challenging his arrest.  

#WATCH | After Delhi HC dismisses CM Kejriwal's plea challenging his arrest by ED in the Excise Policy money laundering case, AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj says, "We do not agree with the court's decision today. We will go to the Supreme Court against it..." pic.twitter.com/c2MfPqu2x9

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AAP sources said that Kejriwal can go to the Supreme Court tomorrow itself.

Saurabh Bharadwaj said that they are hopeful the Supreme Court will provide relief to Kejriwal in the same way it granted bail to AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh recently.

"We respect the institution of the high court but we respectfully submit that we do not agree with its order and will move the Supreme Court against it, Bharadwaj said.The so-called excise policy scam is the biggest political conspiracy to finish off the party and Kejriwal," he alleged.

The announcement came moments after the Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected Kejriwal’s petition challenging his arrest by the ED in the Excise Policy money laundering case.  

Delhi HC said ED was able to show enough documents including the statements of Hawala dealers which shows that money was sent to Goa elections.

"The court is of the view that the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal was not in contravention of legal provisions. The remand can't be held to be illegal," Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said while delivering the verdict, as per PTI.

Besides his arrest, Kejriwal, who is currently in judicial custody, also challenged his subsequent remand in ED custody in the case.

The matter pertains to the alleged corruption and money laundering in formulating and executing the now-scrapped Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22.

Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21, hours after the high court refused to grant him protection from coercive action by the federal anti-money laundering agency.

He was sent to judicial custody in the case on April 1 after he was produced in the trial court on the expiry of ED custody.