Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal moved the Supreme Court on Sunday challenging a Delhi High Court order staying the bail granted to him by the trial court in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.
The matter is likely to come up before the top court on Monday.
The high court on Friday put an interim stay on the trial court's order and reserved its verdict for 2-3 days as it wanted to go through the entire records.
"Till the pronouncement of this order, the operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed," a vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain said.
The Aam Aadmi Party leader would have walked out of jail on Friday had the high court not stayed the trial court order.
Kejriwal, who was arrested on March 21, is currently in judicial custody.
On May 10, the Supreme Court had granted him bail to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. He surrendered in Tihar jail on June after his bail period ended.
Earlier, during the hearing at the trial court, the ED sought to link Kejriwal to the alleged proceeds of crime and co-accused, and the defence that claimed the prosecution has no evidence to nail the chief minister.
The agency told the court that Kejriwal stayed at hotel Grand Hyatt in Goa on on November 7, 2021 during the assembly poll campaign and the bill was paid by Chanpreet Singh, who is alleged to have managed the AAP funds in the coastal state.
Kejriwal's counsel, however, asserted that the entire case against him rests on statements.
"The statements are of those people who have confessed to being guilty. They are not saints here. They are those who are not only tainted, but it appears that some who were arrested were given a promise of bail and promise of being granted pardon. Approvers. And there is another category who have not been arrested," the counsel said.
