A Delhi Court today granted time to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to file response to the replies filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on his two petitions seeking revision against an order on allegedly evading the agency’s summonses in the excise policy case.

The Chief Minister had approached the special court against an order passed by a magisterial court summoning him on a complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for allegedly evading the agency’s summonses in the case.

Special Judge Rakesh Syal granted two weeks to CM Arvind Kejriwal to file rejoinder on the ED’s reply on the AAP convener’s appeals. The court’s order came after Kejriwal’s lawyers sought time, saying they could not get instructions from him as he had been arrested by the ED in the case. The court will now hear the plea on May 14.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on allegations that he was the key conspirator in the money laundering case registered in the matter. He was arrested hours after his plea for interim protection from arrest was rejected by the Delhi High Court. 

On Tuesday, a Delhi Court extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till May 7 in a money laundering case related to the alleged liquor policy scam. Delhi Rouse Avenue Court, Special Judge Kaveri Baweja passed the order. Special Judge Baweja directed Arvind Kejriwal to be produced before the Court on May 7 at 2PM through video conferencing.

The Delhi High Court earlier rejected CM Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest by the central agency and the trial court order remanding him to ED custody. The court upheld the subsequent remand orders passed by the Court including the order through which the AAP national convenor was sent to judicial custody.