The Supreme Court will on Friday deliver its verdict on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's bail petitions challenging his arrest in the liquor policy case by the CBI.
A bench headed by Justice Surya Kant will pronounce the verdict at 10.30 am. Justice Ujjal Bhyan is also part of the bench.
The AAP national convener had filed two pleas appealing against the bail rejection as well as his arrest by the CBI.
AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha said the party is "hopeful" that Kejriwal will get bail. "We are very hopeful. We are waiting for tomorrow (Friday)," Chadha said on Thursday, urging voters to choose AAP in the upcoming Haryana assembly elections on October 5.
Kejriwal was arrested by the CBI on June 26. Earlier ED had registered a money laundering case against the AAP supremo in the excise policy case and arrested him on March 21.
The Delhi High Court had allowed Kejriwal to move a trial court with his bail plea. On September 5, the CBI argued before the Supreme Court bench that the Delhi CM should have sought the bail from the trial court first before moving the Supreme Court.
On Thursday, a Delhi court granted bail to "middleman" Vinod Chauhan in a money-laundering case linked to the liquor policy case. He was accused of transferring cash collected from alleged kickbacks given by the "South Group" to the AAP for the Goa elections.
