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A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan flat-out refused to grant the bail while scheduling the topic for further listening to on August 23
The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday (Aug 14) denied bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise protection corruption case, for the time being below probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan flat-out refused to grant the bail while scheduling the topic for further listening to on August 23.
“We’re now not granting any meantime bail. We are issuing a take a look at,” the court docket said.
Senior imply Abhishek Singhvi, exhibiting for Kejriwal sought the meantime bail on successfully being grounds.
“Appropriate when the ED judgment was about to be delivered, the CBI arrested him. There are successfully being points moving, and we are urgent for meantime bail,” said Singhvi.
Whereas Kejriwal appeals for the leisure, his aide and veteran Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was sooner or later granted bail in the equal case by the apex court docket closing week after spending 17 months in detention middle.
The court docket directed Sisodia to give up his passport and furnish $2,383 (Rs 2 lakh) as bail bonds.
Delhi HC rejects plea
SC rejecting Kejriwal’s plea comes a minute little bit of over a week after the Delhi Excessive Court docket delivered a the same judgment. The court docket said the CBI arrest was now not “with out any justifiable reasons or illegal” while denying the bail.
“Also, it establishes that the loop of proof towards the petitioner got closed after the series of connected proof after his arrest. No malice in anyway can even be gathered from the acts of the respondent (CBI),” the court docket declared.
CBI contended towards the bail saying that the “mere filing of chargesheet” did now not give the Delhi CM, the staunch to bail.
The premier probe agency known as Kejriwal the ‘sutradhar’ (mastermind) of the rip-off, in conjunction with that with out his arrest, “the investigation must not were accomplished”.
CBI in its chargesheet claimed that Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) got kickbacks of round Rs 90-100 crore ($10.7-11.9 million) via co-accused Vijay Nair, Abhishek Boinpally and Dinesh Arora to originate changes to the excise protection 2021-22.
The money was allegedly outmoded in the 2022 Goa assembly elections where AAP contested towards the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP).
(With inputs from companies)
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