: The Delhi high court is set to pronounce its verdict on Tuesday on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate seeking a stay on the trial court order granting bail to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case linked to the excise policy “scam”. The order is due to be pronounced at 2.30 pm.
A vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain had reserved its order on June 21 after the ED challenged the trial court’s decision and put it in abeyance until the final ruling. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court observed that reserving orders on stay matter was a bit “unusual” and fixed June 26 for hearing Mr Kejriwal’s plea against the high court order granting an interim stay on his bail in the money laundering matter. An apex court vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and S.
V.N. Bhatti said it would like to wait for the high court’s order on the matter.
Senior advocate Abhishek “Manu” Singhvi, representing Mr Kejriwal, sought the interim stay on the bail order to be vacated. Stating that Mr Kejriwal was not a flight risk, Mr Singhvi urged the top court to stay the high court’s order before its pronouncement. Additional solicitor-general S.
V. Raju, appearing for the ED, opposed the plea of Mr Kejriwal, and said the high court was about to pronounce the verdict on its stay application. The top court noted that the high court had on June 21 asked the parties to file written submissions till June 24 and observed that the order was likely to be pronoun.