Arvind Kejriwal: Big news is coming out about Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is lodged in Tihar Jail, got a big shock on Tuesday. The Delhi High Court has stayed the bail granted to Kejriwal by the lower court in the Delhi liquor policy case.
Kejriwal had gotten bail from the lower court recently, but ED had challenged it in the high court. Kejriwal had gotten interim bail from the Supreme Court until June 1 for campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections, after which he surrendered on June 2. Then the Supreme Court advised him to go to the lower court for bail.
Kejriwal got bail from the lower court.
On the orders of the Supreme Court, the Delhi CM filed a bail petition in the lower court. On this, the court had granted him bail; however, ED had challenged the bail decision in the Delhi High Court. The High Court had stayed the bail on the last hearing. Kejriwal had knocked on the door of the Supreme Court against this stay.
The Delhi High Court gave its verdict on the ED petition on June 25. “The ED told us that the trial judge has written that he did not have time to see all the documents. Singhvi said the bail should not be cancelled,” the judge said in his order, adding that all points need to be looked into in detail.
Reading out the order, Justice Kumar said, “Interim bail was granted for the election. Once the arrest and remand of Kejriwal were held valid by the coordinate bench, it cannot be said that the personal liberty of the applicant (Kejriwal) was curtailed in violation of the law.”
Reading out the order, Justice Kumar said, “Strong arguments were made that two conditions of Section 45 PMLA were not deliberated upon by the vacation judge. The court is of the view that Section 45 PMLA has not been properly deliberated upon by the trial court.” [Section 45 of the PMLA imposes two conditions for bail for money laundering offences: (i) that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that [the accused] is not guilty of such an offence”; and (ii) that “he is not likely to commit any offence while on bail.”]]
