Delhi High Court dismisses the petition asking for better facilities for Kejrival in jail to enable him function from there with efficacy. Court imposes fine of Rs1 lakh
The cases related to the national convenor of AAP and Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival are being heard in several courts and not a day is left when his matter doesn’t attract the media attention.
The other day, the two judge bench of Supreme Court comprising of justices Deepankar Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna kept the order on his unpredictable interim bail in abeyance after tremendous arguments between the counsels of Arvind Kejrival and the Enforcement Directorate.
The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Raju were representing the ED while Arvind Kejrival was represented by senior advocate Abishekh Manu Singhvi and a Junior advocate Mr.Bharadwaj.
Today, the High Court of Delhi rejected the petition filed by one Shrikant Prasad demanding all the facilities for jailed Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival to conduct all the governmental activities as CM from Jail, meeting the ministers and MLAs as part of his daily activities etc .
The DHC High Court also came down heavily on the petitioner imposing a fine of Rs one lakh for committing this mistake of filing the petition on these non serious grounds.
The petitioner also wanted the High Court to issue directives to restrict the media and opposition politicians to oppose or write against him.
The Court while strongly reprimanding the petitioner was annoyed saying should we enact a martial law or impose emergency on the politicians and media ? We can’t restrict anyone, either the leaders of opposition or the media to express their views in democracy.
The annoyed judge imposed a penalty of Ts 1 Lakh fine on the petitioner to sent a deterrent across, on such petitioners wasting the time of the honourable court.
It may be recalled that while yesterday the Delhi Sessions Rouse Avenue Court’s judge Kaveri Baweja has extended the judicial custody of the Delhi CM till 20 th May, the two judge bench of Supreme Court had reserved the judgement after tremendous discussion between the counsels of Kejrival and the ED.
Last month the Delhi High Court had dismissed two separate petitions filed there asking the court to intervene urgently to dismiss him as Delhi CM after he has been arrested.
The DHC had while dismissing the petition unambiguously said that this is the work/ responsibility of the President of India on the recommendation of the governor of the state and court has no role to play in such matters, whatsoever. The petitioner should approach these persons than coming to court said the judge of high court.
