The order was passed by retiring judge Amitabh Rawat following a CBI petition seeking five-day custody of the Aam Aadmi Party supreme leader for interrogation.
On the same day, CM Kejriwal, when he was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court, was formally arrested by the CBI. The CBI was granted permission to produce CM Kejriwal before the special court on Wednesday after he was questioned by the agency in Tihar jail.
During the hearing on the CBI's plea seeking custody of him, Kejriwal said he did not blame any of his party leaders, including former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, for alleged irregularities in the formulation of the now scrapped policy on alcoholic beverages.
Addressing the court, he alleged that CBI sources were constructing a false narrative in the media to malign the image of the ruling party in the national capital and its leaders.
"I have never testified that Manish Sisodia is guilty. Manish Sisodia is innocent, AAP is innocent, I am innocent," he said.
However, the CBI lawyer emphasized that custodial interrogation of CM Kejriwal was necessary as he transferred all responsibility to former deputy CM Sisodia, who was handling the liquor portfolio at the relevant time.
Justice Rawat had then reserved his ruling on the CBI application.
In a related matter, Kejriwal withdrew his plea filed in the Supreme Court challenging the interim stay ordered by the Delhi High Court on his bail in the money laundering case linked to the same case.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for the AAP supremo, submitted before a vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti that a fresh plea would be filed before the apex court in view of the latest decision of the Delhi High Court which suspended the trial court's order. granting bail to CM Kejriwal in money laundering case.
In its final verdict pronounced on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that the vacation bench of the trial court did not apply its mind to all the material and should give equal opportunities to the ED to argue the bail application.
On the same day, CM Kejriwal, when he was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court, was formally arrested by the CBI. The CBI was granted permission to produce CM Kejriwal before the special court on Wednesday after he was questioned by the agency in Tihar jail.
During the hearing on the CBI's plea seeking custody of him, Kejriwal said he did not blame any of his party leaders, including former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, for alleged irregularities in the formulation of the now scrapped policy on alcoholic beverages.
Addressing the court, he alleged that CBI sources were constructing a false narrative in the media to malign the image of the ruling party in the national capital and its leaders.
"I have never testified that Manish Sisodia is guilty. Manish Sisodia is innocent, AAP is innocent, I am innocent," he said.
However, the CBI lawyer emphasized that custodial interrogation of CM Kejriwal was necessary as he transferred all responsibility to former deputy CM Sisodia, who was handling the liquor portfolio at the relevant time.
Justice Rawat had then reserved his ruling on the CBI application.
In a related matter, Kejriwal withdrew his plea filed in the Supreme Court challenging the interim stay ordered by the Delhi High Court on his bail in the money laundering case linked to the same case.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for the AAP supremo, submitted before a vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti that a fresh plea would be filed before the apex court in view of the latest decision of the Delhi High Court which suspended the trial court's order. granting bail to CM Kejriwal in money laundering case.
In its final verdict pronounced on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that the vacation bench of the trial court did not apply its mind to all the material and should give equal opportunities to the ED to argue the bail application.
