Supreme Court To Hear Arvind Kejriwal's Plea Against ED Arrest In Delhi Excise Policy Scam Today

Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on March 21. (File photo)

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has approached the Supreme Court challenging the April 9 judgment delivered by the Delhi High Court which dismissed his writ petition challenging his arrest by the probe agency

The Supreme Court is set to hear a plea by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the excise policy scam. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta is expected to hear the matter.

Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the ED in connection with an excise policy-linked money-laundering case.

According to a Live Law report, Kejriwal has approached the Supreme Court challenging the April 9 judgment delivered by the Delhi High Court which dismissed his writ petition challenging his arrest by the probe agency.

ED has filed its counter-affidavit and Kejriwal his rejoinder in the matter.

In his rejoinder, the Delhi CM refuted allegations levelled by the ED in the top court and stressed that the probe agency has acted in a most high-handed manner in a gross affront to the due process of law.

ED’s claims are bogus, based on blatant falsehoods and have no ground. The present case is a classic case of how the ruling party-led central government has misused the central agency, Enforcement Directorate, and its wide powers under PMLA to crush its biggest political opponent AAP and its leaders, said the CM.

Arvind Kejriwal’s rejoinder before the Supreme Court reads, “A cumulative reading of the ED’s stand in its reply would expose the bogey and blatant falsehood in the conduct of its proceedings. The record would reveal that each and every summons that have been issued to Shri Arvind Kejriwal have been duly responded. In the instant case, the ED has not only been opaque and dictatorial in its approach but also guilty of suggestio falsi (suggesting falsehood) & suppressio veri (suppressing truth).”

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