Delhi High Court Stays Trial Court's Bail in Kejriwal's Money Laundering Case

The Delhi High Court has stayed the trial court's order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case linked to the excise policy. This decision comes after a series of legal maneuvers and investigations by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

The Delhi High Court has intervened to stay the trial court's decision to grant bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the high-profile excise policy-linked money laundering case. This significant legal development follows a chronology of events that date back to November 2021.

The controversy began when the Delhi government introduced a new excise policy in November 2021, later leading to allegations of irregularities. By July 2022, Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena recommended a CBI probe into the policy's formulation and implementation. Subsequently, both the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed cases related to these allegations in August 2022.

As events unfolded, the Delhi government scrapped the excise policy in September 2022. Legal pressure mounted on Kejriwal as the ED issued nine summonses from October 2023 to March 2024. Although the Supreme Court granted him interim bail to campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, the trial court's regular bail order was challenged by the ED, resulting in the high court's latest ruling to stay the bail.

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