No interim relief for Arvind Kejriwal from Delhi HC, next hearing on April 3

Digital Desk: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal filed a request for interim relief on Wednesday, but the Delhi High Court dismissed it. It also sent notice on Kejriwal's motion to contest his arrest and ED remand. The hearing is scheduled for April 3.

Delhi High Court has requested the response from ED regarding both the petitioner's appeal for interim release and the main petition. Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma scheduled the next hearing for April 3 and allowed the ED until April 2 to file the reply.

According to Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma's bench, to provide "effective representation," the respondent/ED must be given the chance to submit a reply.

The bench said, "Rejecting this chance would amount to denying a fair hearing and violating one of the natural justice principles, i.e., audi-alteram partem, which applies to both the parties and not one." 

 

 

 ·        In relation to a money-laundering case connected to the excise policy "scam," AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has pleaded with the Delhi High Court for an order ordering his immediate release from ED custody, arguing that his arrest occurred prior to the Lok Sabha elections.

·        Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal, spoke to the media on Wednesday for the second time. The CM has diabetes, according to her, and his "sugar levels are not in range," but he is very determined to reach the nation's capital.

 

·      Delivering Kejriwal's speech to Delhi, Sunita stated in Hindi, "Mere jail mein hai mera unhone ne kaha hai, lekin aatma aap sabke beech." Mujhe apne aas paas mehsoos karo aur aankhein band karo. Translated loosely, it says, "Kejriwal has stated that although my body is in jail, my soul is among the people." Put your eyes closed and sense my presence.

·         On Tuesday, two days after issuing his initial directive, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal gave Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj a new order from the ED to address the lack of medications and diagnostic tests at the city's hospitals and mohalla clinics. 

·         “Irrespective of whether he is in or out, whenever an underprivileged person goes to a government hospital to get medicines, he/she should get it. A middle class person can buy medicines, but lakhs of underprivileged families in Delhi are completely dependent on government hospitals and Mohalla clinics for medicines. Some of these medicines need to be taken lifelong,” Bharadwaj, in charge of health portfolio, said at a press meeting.

·        Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena declared at a TV channel-organized conference that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would not be permitted to govern the nation's capital while incarcerated. 

·         The Aam Aadmi Party's legal cell received a warning from the acting chief justice of the Delhi High Court: "If organized (protests) in court premises, they will do it at their own peril." There will be serious repercussions for it. A fundamental right is the ability to approach the court. No one can be stopped, and there will be dire repercussions if someone stops the general public, the court stated, postponing the subject for hearing until Thursday, March 28.