The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday interrogated Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Tihar jail as part of its probe into the Delhi excise policy case.
The CBI questioned the Aam Aadmi Party leader a day before the Supreme Court is set to hear a petition filed by him challenging the Delhi High Court order staying his bail granted by the trial court.
The high court had 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. On Tuesday, the court stayed the lower court order, saying trial court did not "appropriately appreciate" the material placed before it by the Enforcement Directorate.
A vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain said the ED's contentions assailing the bail order required serious consideration.
"The Vacation (trial) Judge while passing the Impugned Order did not appropriately appreciate the material/documents submitted on record and pleas taken by ED and the averments/grounds as raised in the petition under section 439(2) of the Code require serious consideration," it said.
Trial court judge Niyay Bindu had granted bail to Kejriwal on June 20 and ordered his release on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh.
The ED moved the high court the very next day and contended that the trial court's order was "perverse", "one-sided" and "wrong-sided" and it was passed without granting it adequate opportunity to argue the case.
