Singhvi's statement on Kejriwal's bail, said foreign countries have different rules.

29 July decision on Kejriwal's bail: Singhvi's statement on Kejriwal's bail, said foreign countries have different rules.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was arrested in the liquor policy case. The Delhi High Court had reserved the decision on the petition challenging his bail, while Kejriwal was granted bail for campaigning during the elections. The debate on this matter continued for about two and a half hours on Wednesday, after which the court reserved the decision to hear the bail petition on 29 July.

Arguments during the hearing.

The hearing was held in Justice Neena Bansal Krishna's court, in which Kejriwal's lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi took his side against his arrest and said that Arvind Kejriwal is the people's elected Chief Minister, not a terrorist and as Imran is released in Pakistan and then goes to jail, this cannot happen in our country.

Bail became a matter of controversy.

CBI lawyer DP Singh said in his statement regarding Kejriwal's bail that if Kejriwal gets bail, he can influence the investigation.

Issues of debate in the court room.

 Singhvi: Kejriwal is a CM who was elected by the people, not a terrorist. CBI gave an application for interrogation in the trial court, which was accepted but no copy of it was given to the other party and no information was given about the interrogation during custody, no notice was provided for this.

Singhvi: While advocating for Kejriwal, he said that now Kejriwal cannot be arrested again because he has already gone to jail. Therefore, interrogation can be done now but there is no need to arrest him, for which an application for interim bail has also been filed.

DP Singh: We will present our arguments today itself, but if it becomes 4 o'clock while presenting arguments, then the court can give another date for hearing on this matter.

DP Singh: DP says who will decide how the investigation should be done, but Kejriwal or his lawyer does not have to decide this, rather Singhvi had told that Kejriwal's interrogation lasted for 9 hours, its recording is complete, during all this there was a huge crowd in front of the CBI office. According to DP Singh, the bail granted to Kejriwal by the Supreme Court on May 10 was given to him only for election campaign, whereas he could have been arrested on the same day, but being a responsible agency, we thought it better to wait.

Timeline of the case.

November, 2021 Kejriwal government brought a new excise policy.

July, 2022 Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena demanded a CBI inquiry, citing irregularities in the policy.

August, 2022 CBI and ED registered separate cases in this case.

September, 2022 Delhi government canceled the new excise policy.

October, 2023 to March 2024 ED sent a total of 9 summons to Kejriwal in the money laundering case. 21 March 2024 Delhi High Court rejected Kejriwal's plea to stop his arrest and ED arrested him.

10 May 2024 Supreme Court granted bail till 1 June in view of Lok Sabha elections.

2 June 2024 Kejriwal surrendered.

20 June 2024 Rouse Avenue Court granted bail to Kejriwal.

21 June 2024 ED filed a petition in Delhi High Court against the trial court's decision.

25 June 2024 High Court stayed Kejriwal's bail. The same night CBI interrogated Kejriwal in jail.

26 June 2024 CBI arrested Kejriwal and the court ordered to send him to CBI custody for 3 days.

Supreme Court's comments.

SC's statement is that this bench is considering the question of Section 19. The difference between this section 19 and 45 is clear. Section 19 depends on the investigating officer, while Section 45 refers to the exercise of the court. In this way the powers of the court are not considered different from the powers of any officer, this reason is in accordance with the criteria.