DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will soon move an application for regular bail in the corruption case related to the alleged Excise scam, his lawyer informed the Delhi High Court on Tuesday. The court, meanwhile, asked the CBI to respond to his plea challenging his arrest in the case involving alleged graft. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and asked it to file its reply within seven days. The High Court said Kejriwal’s counsel may file a rejoinder, if any, within two days thereafter. It listed the matter for arguments on July 17.

 

Besides his arrest, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor has also challenged the trial court’s June 26 and June 29 orders by which he was remanded in CBI custody for three days and judicial custody till July 12, respectively.

Kejriwal, 55, was arrested by the CBI on June 26 from Tihar Jail, where he was in judicial custody in a connected money laundering case filed by ED. Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, representing Kejriwal, submitted that an FIR was lodged by the CBI in August 2022 and he was summoned and questioned by the probe agency in April 2023 for nine hours.