Liquor Policy Scam: Supreme Court refuses to grant interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal in CBI case
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<!--[endif]-->The Supreme Court's division bench has refused to grant interim
bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has challenged the Delhi High Court's
dismissal of his petition against his arrest by the CBI in the liquor
policy scam case.
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<!--[endif]-->A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan has issued notice
on the petition and has listed the matter for hearing on August 23.
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<!--[endif]-->"This is an insurance
arrest...you interrogated me in April 2023...and arrested me in March
2024..just at the cusp when ED order was coming..I am arrested by CBI..", Senior
Advocate AM Singhvi told the bench today.
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<!--[endif]-->CBI has termed Kejriwal as the 'sutradhar' (mastermind)
of the policy scam.
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<!--[endif]-->High Court's single judge bench of Justice Neena Bansal
Krishna held, “The
arrest of Arvind Kejriwal by the CBI was legal”.
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<!--[endif]-->The Rouse Avenue Court had authorized the CBI to question
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal regarding the defunct liquor excise policy.
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<!--[endif]-->AAP leader Sanjay Singh has accused the CBI of misleading the
Supreme Court, alleging that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest was a
tactic to keep political opponents in jail. Singh claimed the ED and CBI were
tools of the Central government.
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<!--[endif]-->The Delhi CM was arrested on March 21st this year by the ED and
obtained Supreme Court bail for campaigning but faced challenges in
subsequent appeals.
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<!--[endif]-->ED's case against Kejriwal & allies involves allegations of
corruption and money laundering in the formulation and execution of Delhi's
excise policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped.
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<!--[endif]-->Case Title: ARVIND KEJRIWAL vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION
