Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court, on Friday, extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case, registered against him by the CBI, till July 25.
This comes barely hours after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a money laundering case lodged by the ED against the CM in the alleged excise policy scam.
The Delhi CM was produced through video conferencing before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja. Rouse Avenue court supplied a copy of the supplementary charge sheet filed against Kejriwal to his counsel. The court has already taken cognizance of the charge filed against the Delhi CM.
Despite the apex court relief, Kejriwal will remain in jail as the CBI had arrested him in a corruption case related to the alleged scam while he was in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court is set to hear Kejriwal's bail plea in the CBI case on July 17.
Reacting to the SC granting him interim bail, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Sandeep Pathak said it is a "victory of truth".
The BJP knew that Kejriwal would get bail from the Supreme Court in the ED's money laundering case linked to the excise policy matter and it, therefore, got him arrested by the CBI, Atishi claimed.
