Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea Highlights: CBI records Delhi CM’s statement in Tihar; AAP to move SC against stay on bail

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Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: Central Bureau of Investigation examined Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in Tihar Jail on Monday and recorded his statement related to the Excise Policy case. CBI also got permission for Arvind Kejriwal's production before the concerned trial court tomorrow. He will be produced before the court tomorrow

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said it disagrees with the Delhi High Court order staying the bail granted to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the trial court and will challenge it in the Supreme Court.

The Delhi High Court earlier in the day stayed the trial court order granting bail to Kejriwal in the money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam in Delhi.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: The Delhi CM had moved the Supreme Court against Delhi HC order on his bail plea. The SC had kept the hearing date on June 26.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: The Delhi HC said that the trial court judge gas not appreciated documents and arguments ‘properly’. 

'Therefore, the impugned order is stayed', Delhi HC said.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: Big setback for Arvind Kejriwal. Delhi High Court stays trial court order granting him bail in the Delhi excise policy case.

“This court has decided that the vacation judge did not appropriately appreciate the material on record and the averments of ED. Accordingly the application is allowed and the operation of the impugned order is stayed.” the Delhi HC noted.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: Delhi HC notes 
-The vacation judge did not discuss about the vicarious liability of Kejriwal under section 70 PMLA

-Vacation judge has not appreciated Satender Kumar Antil judgment of the SC in right perspective.

-This court is also of the opinion that the SC granted bail to Kejriwal for Lok Sabha. Once his plea challenging arrest has been dismissed by the High Court it cannot be said that his personal liberty was curtailed in violation of the law.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: The court has considered the arguments advanced by both parties.

ASG SV Raju referred to the observation of the trial court that the vacation judge did not consider the record.

Such observation was totally unjustified and reflected that trial court not applied its mind to the record.

Delhi HC says that the mandatory conditions under PMLA has not been properly discussed in the trial court order.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: Delhi High Court to shortly pronounce its verdict on ED's plea seeking stay on bail granted to Arvind Kejriwal.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: While granting bail to Kejriwal, Vacation Judge Niyay Bindu of Rouse Avenue Court contained scathing observations against the ED. The judge went to the extent of drawing an inference that the ED was acting with bias against Kejriwal.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: Kejriwal was granted bail by the trial court on June 20. The Delhi High Court put an interim stay on AAP leader's bail the next day, after ED challenged the order.

On the same day, Justice Jain reserved his verdict on ED's stay application.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain will pronounce the verdict today at 2:30 PM.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: Delhi High Court is set to pronounce its verdict on ED's plea seeking stay on bail granted to Arvind Kejriwal by the Supreme Court.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 25, instructed Delhi High Court to adjudicate former AAP minister Satyendar Kumar Jain's bail plea in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case on July 9.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: The ED in the Delhi High Court on Monday said, “Denial of ample opportunity to the Enforcement Directorate is a violation of one of the conditions of Section 45,” reported ANI.

Arvind Kejriwal Bail Plea LIVE: The ED on Monday filed written submissions before the Delhi High Court against any relief to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the Excise Policy money laundering case.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is lodged in Tihar Jail, has lost eight kilograms of weight since his arrest on March 21, the AAP said on Saturday, while adding that a medical board of the AIIMS has recommended including "paratha and puri" in his diet.

The Delhi High Court on Friday put an interim stay on the bail granted to Kejriwal by a trial court in a money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy of his government. The high court is likely to pronounce its reserved verdict on the trial court's bail granted to Kejriwal next week.

Enforcement Directorate lists statements of 13 Angariyas, Goa AAP workers, and AAP office bearers as new statements.

"Denial of ample opportunity to the Enforcement Directorate is a violation of one of the conditions of Section 45," said the ED to the Delhi High Court.

The Delhi High Court will on Tuesday pronounce its verdict on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate seeking a stay on the trial court order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam.

The order is scheduled to be pronounced at 2:30 p.m.

A vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti, which fixed June 26 for hearing Kejriwal's plea against the interim stay granted by the high court at the time of reserving its verdict on ED's plea said, "Normally, on stay applications, orders are not reserved. They are passed at the hearing itself, on the spot. So, it is a bit unusual."

Senior Advocate Abhishek Singhvi, representing Arvind Kejriwal, requested lifting the interim stay on the bail order. Singhvi argued that CM Kejriwal poses no flight risk and urged the bench to suspend the high court's decision before it is finalised.

"I know what I am asking. This court must stay the high court order before it is being pronounced just like the high court had stayed the bail order on mere mentioning by the Enforcement Directorate," he submitted.

The Supreme Court flagged the Delhi High Court's order to stay CM Kejriwal's bail as ‘unusual’. “In stay matters, judgments are not reserved but passed on the spot. What has happened here is unusual,” Bar and Bench quoted the SC vacation bench as saying.

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the trial court order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was based on "perverse" findings as it did not consider the material demonstrating his "neck deep involvement" in the offence of money laundering linked to the alleged excise scam.

In a written note filed in relation to its plea seeking a stay on the trial court’s decision, the agency contended the order suffers from a "jurisdictional defect" since it was not given a proper opportunity to argue its case.

The Delhi High Court will pronounce on Tuesday its verdict on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate seeking a stay on the trial court order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam.

The order is scheduled to be pronounced at 2:30 p.m.

The Supreme Court on Monday fixed June 26 for hearing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea against the Delhi High Court order putting interim stay on his bail in the money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.