After Delhi HC, Delhi court dismisses Kejriwal's plea; All you need to know about the Arvind Kejriwal case

New Delhi, Apr 10: In the most latest update coming in from Delhi about the arrested Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a Delhi court has dismissed the plea moved by Kejriwal seeking direction to increase the number of legal meetings with his lawyers from two to five times a week. There is much more happening in the series. Here's all that is happening;

 

 

 

 

Regarding the latest update, Kejriwal, through the plea, stated that as he is facing multiple FIRs in various states, a lot of legal work takes place and hence the number of meetings should be increased. The Special Judge Kaveri Baweja on Wednesday passed the order and decided to dismiss it. Special Counsel Zoheb Hossain appearing for respondent authorities opposed the application stating that the applicant is seeking legal meetings five times in a week and is clearly against the Jail Manual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann & Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh will not be able to meet jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday (Apr 10) as the Tihar Jail administration has revoked permission for the meeting citing security reasons. As per sources, earlier an appointment between Mann, Singh and Kejriwal was fixed by the Tihar Jail administration. However, since the permission to meet has been revoked, the prison authorities will decide on a new time for the meeting.

 

 

 

 

Delhi HC has upheld the legality of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged excise case and said the repeated non-compliance of summons for over a period of six months by the AAP leader was indeed a contributing factor in his arrest.

 

 

 

 

"Had the petitioner joined the investigation pursuant to the issuance of summons under Section 50 of PMLA," asked the court on Tuesday, adding that he could have given his version before the investigating agency against the material that it had collected.

 

 

 

 

 

The bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma, while dismissing Kejriwal's plea also stated that the conduct of Arvind Kejriwal of not joining the investigation left little option with the ED other than his arrest for the purpose of investigating a pending case, in which other co-accused are in judicial custody, and the investigating agency is also running against time in view of the order of the Supreme Court which it was ordered that the trial, in this case, should proceed expeditiously.

 

 

 

 

Delhi High Court has dismissed CM Arvind Kejriwal's plea challenging his arrest in the alleged excise policy scam, stating that the conduct of the AAP supremo in relation to his non-cooperation with the investigating agency is visible by the fact that he failed to join investigation despite being served with nine summons.

 

 

The bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma on Tuesday (Apr 9) while dismissing Kejriwal's plea made strong observations and said Kejriwal was not summoned for the first time after the General Elections were declared in India or the Model Code of Conduct came into existence, but the first summons was sent to him as far back as in October 2023.

 

 

 

 

 

It was Kejriwal himself who had chosen not to join the investigation, but had sent replies to all the summons, the bench said, adding that the Delhi CM himself was aware of the case, as many of his co-accused persons were in judicial custody in the same ECIR, and he had knowledge about the statements recorded in the ECIR (Enforcement Case Information Report). Therefore, to say that he did not attend those summons since he did not know why he was being summoned has no merit, the court added.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday (Apr 10) moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court's dismissal of the plea challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the excise policy case. The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (Apr 9) dismissed his plea, saying Kejriwal's arrest is not in contravention of law and remand can't be termed "illegal".

 

 

The high court further stated that this court is of the opinion that the accused has been arrested and his arrest and remand have to be examined as per law and not as per the timing of elections.

 

 

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