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New Delhi: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s lawyer, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, on Wednesday described the Delhi chief minister\u2019s arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as an \u201cafterthought insurance arrest\u201d. Arguing before the Delhi high court in favour of Kejriwal\u2019s plea challenging his arrest and remand by the CBI in the Delhi excise policy case, Singhvi claimed the agency neither has any material nor grounds for arrest.<\/p>\n
Arvind Kejriwal, who was in judicial custody in connection with the Enforcement Directorate\u2019s money laundering probe linked to the now-scrapped excise policy, was arrested by the CBI in June. The agency\u2019s action came a few days after a Delhi court granted Arvind Kejriwal a regular bail. The Delhi high court later stayed the Delhi court\u2019s order.<\/p>\n
Singhvi today claimed the CBI hadn\u2019t considered arresting his client until June 2024, only after the trial court granted him bail in the ED\u2019s case.<\/p>\n
\u201cCBI has not thought me to interrogate till June. The scam allegedly took place in August 2022 and you are in June. Just 2 months short of August, you suddenly feel the need to arrest him?\u201d he said in the court.<\/p>\n
Singhvi said the CBI cannot deal with his client in violation of the most overarching fundamental right of liberty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe arrest is in breach of the procedure established by law,\u201d Singhvi said.<\/p>\n
He said Kejriwal\u2019s arrest violated Section 41 of the CrPC.<\/p>\n
He said Kejriwal is a chief minister, not a terrorist.<\/p>\n
Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the CBI inside a Delhi court after it allowed the agency to interrogate him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo learned trial court judge could have allowed this. He says that the trial court could not have allowed his remand only on the ground that \u2018Kejriwal did not give satisfactory answers\u2019,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Singhvi claimed the CBI didn\u2019t attempt to show under which clause Kejriwal was arrested. He said no reason for the arrest was given.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout notice or hearing me, this is allowed,\u201d Singhvi added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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