New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): After the Delhi High Court stayed the trial court order granting bail of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case related to alleged excise policy "scam", Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shazia Ilmi on Friday slammed the "double standards" of the Aam Aadmi Party and said that be it bail or jail, it is a judicial proceeding.
"When the bail was granted in the trial court, ED said that their arguments haven't been heard... If the bail is granted then AAP sees it as relaxation. When the bail order is stayed through the same judicial system, then they blame the BJP for this. Be it bail or jail, it is a judicial proceeding... AAP has to quit such double standards," Ilmi told ANI.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has to remain in jail for another few days as the Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the trial court order granting bail to Kejriwal in the liquor policy case.
The vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain said that the judgement will be delivered in two to three days.
"Till pronouncement, the operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed," the court said while putting an interim stay on the trial court decision granting bail to Kejriwal.
The HC was hearing the Enforcement Directorate's plea challenging the trial court decision granting bail to Kejriwal. Yesterday evening Rouse Avenue Court granted the bail to Kejriwal. Today morning ED moved the HC seeking a stay on the order.
Challenging the Rouse Avenue court order, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju said that the trial court order is perverse. ASG SV Raju appearing for the Enforcement Directorate says proper opportunity has not been given to probe agency for argument before the trial court.
Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 in connection with a money laundering case relating to alleged irregularities in the now-cancelled Delhi excise policy 2021-22.
The Delhi Chief Minister was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court on May 10 given Lok Sabha polls and was told to surrender on June 2. He was asked not to visit the Office of the Chief Minister and the Delhi Secretariat. (ANI)
