The Supreme Court granted interim bail to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for 21days and asked the national convenor of AAP Admi Party AAP to surrender June 2, a day after the polling for the seven-phased Lok Sabha elections.
The bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Diparkar Datta announced the verdict after a brief hearing an interim bail plea filed by Kejriwal.
The ED on Thursday opposed the Supreme Court's recommendation to grant interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections. Kejriwal is currently in Tihar jail after being arrested by the ED on March 21 in connection with the Delhi liquor scam.
Earlier on Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court challenging the interim bail of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam, saying the right to campaign is neither a fundamental nor a constitutional right. But the Supreme Court's granting of interim bail to Kejriwal is a big relief for the Aam Aadmi Party.
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