New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to listen to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s plea towards his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on April 15. Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will preside over the listening to.
AAP chief Kejriwal approached the Supreme Court after the Delhi High Court dismissed his plea towards the ED’s arrest and detention. Delhi CM argues that his arrest was maliciously carried out throughout the normal election interval and it was pushed by ulterior motives.
The petition, whereas in search of the discharge of the Delhi Chief Minister from jail, stated the ED has “allowed its process to be used and misused by vested interests” as an instrument of oppression to not solely “invade the liberty of the political opponents” within the midst of normal election, 2024 of such vested pursuits but additionally (*15*)
Kejriwal’s arrest additionally constitutes an “unprecedented assault on the tenets of democracy” primarily based on “free and fair elections” and “federalism,” each of which type vital constituents of the fundamental construction of the Constitution, the attraction additional said.
“The petitioner’s arrest, therefore, bears serious, irreversible ramifications for the future of electoral democracy in India, for if the petitioner is not released forthwith to participate in the upcoming elections, it will establish a precedence in law for ruling parties to arrest heads of political opposition on flimsy and vexatious charges before elections, thereby eroding the core principles of our Constitution,” the petition said.
Kejriwal said whereas submitting the attraction towards the High Court ruling that the Enforcement Directorate lacks enough proof to show Delhi CM responsible beneath Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
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Senior AAP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Saturday claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was not being allowed in-person conferences together with his household in Tihar jail. Addressing a press convention, Singh stated, “There is an try to interrupt the morale of CM Kejriwal.”
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“His household has not been allowed in-person conferences with him. They are solely allowed to satisfy him by way of the jangla. This is inhuman. Even hardcore criminals are allowed in-person conferences,” the AAP chief stated.
AAP chief additional emphasised that the ‘mulakat jangla’ is an iron mesh which separates the inmate from the customer in a room contained in the jail. A customer and an inmate can discuss to one another by sitting on completely different sides of the mesh.There was no speedy response from the Tihar administration.
On Friday, the jail authorities scheduled Kejriwal’s assembly together with his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann for April 15, saying that he can meet the AAP convener, however as a standard customer within the ‘mulakat jangla’.
The chief minister met his spouse Sunita Kejriwal and private secretary Bibhav Kumar inside Tihar Jail on Tuesday.
