Arvind Kejrival’s bail granted by the trial court stalled by Delhi High Court. Still in Jail. Supreme Court to give judgement on Wednesday
The incarcerated Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejrival seems to be in real mess entangled in legal complications with no ray of hope to get bail till date. On 20 June he was granted bail by the special judge of Rouse Avenue trial court namely Nyay Bindu on the condition to furnish a bond of Rs one lakh on the ground that the ED could submit any concrete evidence against him to prove of his direct involvement in the case , the ED immediately approached the High Court the next day and got Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival’s bail stayed with the High Court vacation judge Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain reserving the order for 25 th June. Today the Delhi high Court vacation judge justice Jain stayed the bail order of the trial court with Supreme Court’s two judge bench to deliver its reserved judgement on Wednesday. While not granting bail and staying the trial court bail order the Delhi High Court vacation judge Sudhir Kumar Jain ruled that since the trial court has not sufficiently entertained the evidences submitted by the ED against Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival and had also not given them sufficient time to argue its stay application the bail order of the trial court is quashed and the Delhi CM will stay in jail. The vacation high court judge said that the trial court judge has not taken into consideration the evidences put forth by the ED including their point of view and passed order for bail to Arvind Kejrival. Hence the application of the Enforcement Directorate to stall the bail orders of the trail court is allowed and the bail stayed. However the AAM Admi Party has strongly opposed the High Court judgement saying that it would approach the Supreme Court challenging this order. Tomorrow the two judge bench led by justice Manoj Mishra is to give its judgement on the order kept reserved for 26 th on the ground that since the High Court had earlier already reserved its judgement on 25 June, we can’t give out verdict before the high Court judgement. Now it remains to be seen as to what would be the fate of incarcerated Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejrival on Wednesday when the Supreme Court’s vacation bench delivers its judgement. It may be recalled that the Delhi chief minister was arrested on March 22 in money laundering case pertaining to the Delhi government’s New Excise policy related liquor scam termed by the courts as the king pin in the entire scam who had allegedly received money from the Southern Lobby against granting favours to the liquor Lobby via the new excise policy of Delhi government , now revoked.On May 10 after being denied bail by the lower and high courts Arvind Kejrival was released by the Supreme Court on interim bail till 2 nd June allowing him to campaign for his party candidates in the parliamentary elections. Since then the senior counsel of Arvind Kejrival Abhishekh Manu Singhvi along with junior counsels have been approaching the Delhi Sessions Court, n Delhi High Court n finally supreme court to seek bail but all in vain.