Social worker and national president of the Hindu Sena Vishnu Gupta filed the petition. After that, Gupta said he would present to the Lieutenant Governor and withdrew his plea.
Digital Desk: The Delhi High Court (HC) on Thursday declined to entertain a petition seeking the removal of Arvind Kejriwal from the position of chief minister (CM) of Delhi while he is detained in Tihar Jail. According to a division bench of the court, Kejriwal alone decided whether to stay on as chief minister.
Additionally, the court instructed the petitioner to contact the relevant constitutional authorities about the issue. "At times, personal interest has to be subordinate to national interest, but that is his [Kejriwal's] personal call," the Supreme Court stated.
"We are a judicial body. "Do you have any precedent in which the court has imposed the Governor's or President's rule?" it added.
Social worker and national president of the Hindu Sena Vishnu Gupta filed the petition. After that, Gupta said he would present to the Lieutenant Governor and withdrew his plea.
In the national capital, the petitioner's attorney claimed, there was a "lack of government" following Kejriwal's incarceration on March 21.
Similar pleas were rejected by the court last week as well as in January (weeks before Kejriwal was detained).
The acting Chief Justice declared last week that the removal of a sitting chief minister is not subject to judicial intervention. "It is for the other wings of the government to examine, in accordance with the law, this issue," the ruling stated. A bench led by then Chief Justice Rajendra Menon issued a definite declaration regarding the plea before that, stating that "prosecution is going on... he may be acquitted."
Just a few weeks before the election, Arvind Kejriwal was taken into custody on March 21 in relation to the purported liquor policy fraud that has rocked the AAP. The detention of important political figures, such as K Kavitha of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and a serving chief minister, has also been denounced by the opposition.
Kejriwal's attorney contested the timing of the arrests on Wednesday in an attempt to obtain temporary reprieve.
"Why this urgency? I am not talking about politics, I am talking about law," senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, arguing the arrest was meant to "demolish AAP before the first vote is cast".
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