"Only After Trial Court..." Question For CBI As Arvind Kejriwal Gets Bail

Mr Kejriwal was first arrested in mid-March by the Enforcement Directorate and re-arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in June, days after the trial court had granted him bail in the ED case.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal bail for his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the alleged liquor excise policy case. The court noted the Aam Aadmi Party leader had been in jail since March and came down strongly on his detention without a trial, noting the "prolonged incarceration amounts to unjust deprivation of liberty".

However, while the two-judge bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan agreed on the release of the Chief Minister, they differed on a second plea - challenging the CBI's arrest in June, while he was still in ED custody, and days after a trial court granted bail in the latter's case.

Justice Bhuyan seemed to ask serious questions of the CBI and its apparent late actions.