Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court on Sunday challenging the Delhi High Court’s stay of his bail order in the liquor policy case.
The high court postponed the case to June 25 and ordered an interim stay on the lower court’s ruling granting Kejriwal bail.
“High Court has lost sight of the most objective criteria that is required to judge an application for cancellation of bail and therefore, the impugned order staying the operation of the order granting bail cannot sustain even for a day,” the plea stated.
Kejriwal’s attorneys have requested that the case be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday.
“The manner adopted by the High Court in staying the bail order is contrary to the said clear dicta of law laid down by this Hon’ble Court and would violate the basic fundamental threshold on which the bail jurisprudence is premised in our country,” the plea stated.
The plea states that the Aam Aadmi Party chief cannot be denied the due process of law nor “false case” can be cooked up against him “merely because the petitioner is a political figure and opposed to the present dispensation in power in Centre”.
“Petitioner is gravely aggrieved by the impugned order which has rendered justice to be a casualty and the same ought not to be continued even for a moment any further. This Hon’ble Court has repeatedly held that ‘deprivation of liberty even for single day is one too many’,” the plea stated.
In relation to the Delhi liquor policy case, Kejriwal was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21, shortly prior to the Lok Sabha elections.
The Supreme Court granted him temporary bail in May due to the upcoming general elections. He turned himself in on June 2.
