The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) plea to stay trial court’s order granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The court stayed AAP Chief’s bail in an alleged liquor scam case, till the final order is pronounced. The high court asked the counsel to file the written submissions by Monday.
The ED in its petition said, yesterday’s order granting regular bail to Kejriwal was passed without granting it an adequate opportunity of hearing.
A vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain passed the order while issuing notice on the petition filed by the ED. The Court said, it was reserving the matter for a detailed order which will be pronounced in two to three days. The judge directed that in the meantime, the operation of trial court’s bail order will remain stayed. The matter was heard today itself after the ED’s counsel made an urgent mentioning this morning before the Court.
Kejriwal’s counsel Vikram Chaudhari raised objection to the listing of the matter during the vacations. He said, the trial judge had granted bail through a detailed order.
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