A Delhi court today sent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to three-day CBI custody, hours after he was arrested by CBI in connection with a money laundering case. Earlier today, CBI, before producing Kejriwal in the Rouse Avenue Court, arrested him formally. Permission was granted to the CBI to produce CM Kejriwal in the special court after he was questioned by the agency in Tihar Jail.
In a related development, CM Kejriwal withdrew his plea filed before the Supreme Court (SC) challenging the interim stay ordered by the Delhi High Court on his release on bail in the money laundering probe related to now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, represented the AAP supremo, in SC Vacation Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti. Singhvi said that a fresh plea would be moved before the apex court in view of the latest decision of the Delhi High Court staying the trial court order granting bail to CM Kejriwal in the money laundering case.
In its final verdict pronounced on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Delhi High Court on yesterday said that the trial court Vacation Bench did not apply its mind to the entire material and it ought to give equal opportunity to the ED to argue the bail application.
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