'Caged Parrot' Tag Returns To Haunt CBI After Supreme Court's Bail To Arvind Kejriwal
NDTV
The Supreme Court bench said perception matters and the CBI should show it is an "uncaged parrot".
One of the Supreme Court's most-repeated observations made a comeback on Friday when a bench, while granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, said that the CBI must dispel the notion of being a "caged parrot".
The AAP chief had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 in the Delhi excise policy case and then by the Central Bureau of Investigation on June 26, a move that has repeatedly been called an insurance arrest by Mr Kejriwal's counsel, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who has said it was done to ensure that he stays behind bars.
While Justice Surya Kant, one-half of the two-judge bench said there was "no impediment" in Mr Kejriwal's arrest by the CBI, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan had a different take.
