The incarcerated Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival again received a jolt from the Supreme Court when the two judge vacation bench kept its decision whether or not to accord him bail for 26 th June waiting for the judgement of the High Court expected to deliver it tomorrow.
The senior advocate of Supreme Court representing Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival , Abhishekh Manu Singhvi strongly argued in front of Justice Manoj Mishra heading the vacation bench asking why can’t I be free when the judgement delivered by the trial court on June 20 is favouring me.
He said this has never happened before that a High Court has paused the bail immediately even when the order was not typed.
I am the chief minister of Delhi and this is a question of my liberty. How can a bail granted once be stayed despite of the fact that I am not a flight risk adding that when I got the interim bail from Supreme Court after the bail period coming to an end , I presented myself to the prison authorities said the senior Counsel of Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival today.
It may be recalled that after the bail of Arvind Kejrival given by the trial court of June 20 was paused by the High Court on ED’s filing of SLP opposing it, the former had reserved it for 25 – 26 June .
So the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and additional SL D. Raju said that in any case since the High Court will deliver the judgement on 25 th , the SC may kindly wait for the same to which justice Manoj Mishra agreed staying it till 26 th June.
However, Justice Mishra said that this has never happened before and sounds quite unusual that bail given by the trial court is immediately held up by the High Court affecting the personal liberty of the applicant.
To this Abhishekh Manu Singhvi said if by chance the High Court grants bail to my client ( me) on Tuesday then who will be responsible for the time period till date when I would have been out on bail after 20 th June.
