Punjab Newsline, New Delhi, July 12-
The Supreme Court has granted Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal bail in a money-laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate linked to the Delhi liquor policy. But Kejriwal will remain in jail as he is currently being questioned by the CBI in a separate case.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta delivered the judgment. Mr Kejriwal has suffered incarceration for over 90 days, the court said while granting him interim bail in excise policy case filed by ED.
Kejriwal, also the AAP chief, was arrested on March 21 by the ED in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam.In his petition, the 55-year-old had challenged the April 9 order of the Delhi High Court refusing to grant him relief.
The high court had upheld Mr Kejriwal's arrest in the case, saying there was no illegality about it and that the central probe agency was left with "little option" after he skipped repeated summonses and refused to join the investigation.Both the ED and CBI is probing the money laundering angle in the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy.