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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal moved the Supreme Court against the interim stay by the High Court on granting him bail in an ED case linked to an alleged excise scam. While hearing the plea, the Delhi HC had said that it will pass the order on the ED plea in two to three days.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had challenged the order of Rouse Avenue court on granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case related to the Delhi Excise policy.

"Till the pronouncement of this order, the operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed," a vacation bench of the high court said and asked the parties to file written submissions by June 24.

The court had listed the plea for hearing on July 10.

In its bail order, the trial court had held that prima facie, Kejriwal's guilt was yet to be established and that the ED had failed to furnish direct evidence linking him to the proceeds of crime in the money-laundering case.

ED has challenged the order dated June 20, 2024, passed by Special Judge (Vacation Judge), Rouse Avenue District Courts that granted bail to Kejriwal.

ED in its petition has said that the June 20 order granting regular bail to Kejriwal was passed without granting adequate opportunity of hearing to the ED and without considering that in light of the facts of the present case where all courts up to Supreme Court have given judicial imprimatur to the fact that the offence of money laundering has been committed and hence regular bail in light of the mandatory twin conditions under Section 45 of the PMLA could not have been granted.

The Delhi Chief Minister was arrested by the probe agency on March 21 in connection with a money laundering case relating to alleged irregularities in the now-cancelled Delhi excise policy 2021-22.

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He was released from the jail on May 10 following an order from the apex court in view of Lok Sabha polls. The court had asked him to surrender on June 2 and to avoid visiting the Office of the Chief Minister and the Delhi Secretariat.