On Tuesday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the BJP-led Union government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of plotting to file a false case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ahead of an upcoming court hearing. The Supreme Court is set to hear Kejriwal’s plea on June 26, challenging the Delhi High Court’s interim stay on his bail in a money laundering case.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh alleged that the Centre’s actions are motivated by the possibility that the Supreme Court might grant Kejriwal bail, as he is currently held in Tihar Jail regarding the excise policy case.
“Sources have informed me that the Centre is conspiring to register a fake CBI case against the Delhi CM and have him arrested by the CBI, especially now when there’s a strong chance that he will be granted bail by the Supreme Court,” Singh said in a video shared by AAP on X. He added, “The entire nation can see this and is standing in solidarity with Arvind Kejriwal.”
These allegations came just hours after the Delhi High Court halted Kejriwal’s release in the excise policy case by staying a trial court’s order that had granted him bail. Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain criticized the trial court for not properly considering the “voluminous material” presented by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), calling the court’s dismissal of this evidence “totally unjustified.” Kejriwal was arrested by the ED in March in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. The Supreme Court had granted him interim bail on May 10 for election campaigning, requiring him to surrender by June 2. Subsequently, on June 20, the trial court granted him regular bail, which the High Court stayed on June 21, even before the bail order was officially issued.
