On Friday, the Supreme Court granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.
The chief minister, however, will continue to remain in jail because the CBI detained him later in connection with a corruption allegation concerning the purported excise policy scandal.
A panel of Judges Sanjv Khanna and Dipankar Datta has escalated the queries concerning the legality of his detention in the case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to a larger panel.
The highest court has posed three queries regarding the authority and practice of detaining individuals by the ED and has stated that Kejriwal will be granted temporary release under the terms outlined in the May 10 order.
The prime minister was apprehended by the ED on March 21 in a case involving money laundering.
Kejriwal was also apprehended by the CBI on June 26 in connection to the corruption case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.
The issue involves purported corruption and money laundering in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22, which has since been annulled.
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