New Delhi:

Arvind Kejriwal will spend a minimum of one other evening in jail after the Delhi Excessive Court docket refused a petition Wednesday, difficult his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate within the alleged liquor coverage rip-off.

The courtroom has issued a discover asking the ED to reply to Mr Kejriwal’s petition, and given the probe company time until April 2 to take action. The subsequent listening to on this case is on April 3.

Mr Kejriwal is at present in ED custody; he’s being held within the lock-up on the company’s Delhi workplace.

On Thursday the company’s 7-day custody of the AAP chief expires and he will likely be again in courtroom (this time in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court docket), the place, most probably, the authorities will ask for additional custody.

In a long-drawn and intense listening to in the present day, Mr Kejriwal’s authorized workforce slammed the Enforcement Directorate’s “delaying techniques” after the company requested for 3 weeks’ time to reply.

Extra Solicitor Basic SV Raju, showing for the ED, stated the copy of the petition had been served late, and that he wanted time to review the doc. Senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi, showing for Mr Kejriwal, stated the petition had been filed on March 23. “Defects had been cured later. I’m positive Mr Raju doesn’t need us to serve a faulty copy to him… we shared petition with him.”

In his petition, Mr Kejriwal had stated his arrested violated his human rights, and that the Enforcement Directorate had did not show the alleged crime. “Arrest with out interrogation exhibits the present motion is politically motivated,” Mr Singhvi argued, underlining the AAP’s declare that Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest was timed to disrupt the social gathering’s marketing campaign for subsequent month’s Lok Sabha election.