The Hearing of the Arvind Kejriwal Case Is Not Usual: The Top Court’s Observation

He has been in jail for a long time, except for 21 days in May and June, when he was not in custody after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate for an alleged Delhi liquor policy case.

New Delhi: On Monday, the Supreme Court gave no immediate help to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his fight against the temporary withholding of a bail decree issued by a lower court last week.

The court answered Mr. Kejriwal's arguments with the clarification that it wanted to see that judgement entered into the records before giving judgment so that the High Court could look again at this matter when its time comes for a later order.

On Wednesday, the court ruled that the next hearing would take place on this day, while the High Court is expected to give a complete ruling on Tuesday. “It is not right for one to interfere when the High Court has already made its mind,” stated the Supreme Court. “We shall keep this petition for hearing two days from now.”

However, it admitted that the actions by the High Court had been “unusual”; to Justice Manoj Misra, “Stay matters do not have reserved orders but on-the-spot decisions, which is unusual in this case.”

The High Court is expected to give its judgment in a day," said Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who represented the Enforcement Directorate, which detained Kejriwal in the liquor policy case in March and was against the bail and medical relief plea by the Chief Minister."

The High Court previously halted Mr. Kejriwal's bail when the Enforcement Directorate suddenly argued that the release order was "perverse," filing the challenge at the eleventh hour before he was set to walk out of custody.