Special judge Kaveri Baweja on Monday passed the order and said both bail petitions in ED as well as in the CBI case were dismissed. A detailed order copy is awaited.
The raids are part of an ongoing investigation related to the case involving Virendra K. Ram, the chief engineer at the Jharkhand Rural Development Department
The judge will continue hearing the arguments on a similar application filed by Kavitha in connection with the money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized movable and immovable properties valued at approximately Rs 97.79 crore, belonging to the Kundra couple, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) of 2022.
This was even more in the case of those who quit the BJP and joined other parties. As a last resort to escape the central probe agency radar, they are even lobbying with their former colleagues and senior leaders in the saffron party.
The investigative agency is scrutinizing the authenticity and origin of the alleged directives purportedly issued by CM Kejriwal to his ministerial colleagues Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj.
During the protest, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Amit Patkar alleged that the government machinery is now above the Election Commission under the BJP-led NDA.
While senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan said there is no bar in law on a person continuing as chief minister once arrested, senior advocate Vikas Singh said though legally there is no bar, administratively it will be next to impossible.
The ED told Judge Baweja that Kejriwal received several crores of rupees as kickbacks from the 'South group' for formulating and implementing the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.
The plea stated that Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday in the money laundering case related to the alleged liquor policy
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh and Bela M Trivedi asked Kavitha to approach the trial court, saying it is a practice which this court is following and cannot bypass the protocol
Reacting to Kejriwal's arrest, he said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have become the chief instruments of repression in the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
