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Matter of time Arvind Kejriwal gets back to jail: BJP after Delhi CM gets bail in excise policy case

| @indiablooms | Sep 13, 2024, at 09:02 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has tried to give less importance to the bail which was on Friday granted to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Supreme Court in the excise policy case.

After Kejriwal was granted a conditional bail,  BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya posted on X, "The Supreme Court may have granted bail to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal but the Apex Court has declined the plea challenging the legality of the arrest.

"So, prima facie there is voluminous evidence against Kejriwal. It is only a matter of time before he is convicted and back in jail."

The top court has applied conditions on his bail. Kejriwal has been barred from entering into the Chief Minister's office and the state secretariat. He won't be able to sign off government files unless his consent is passed by the Lieutenant Governor.

The Chief Minister won't be able to give any public statement on the case and will have to cooperate with the probe. He has been asked to pay Rs. 10 lakh as a bond amount.

Taking a dig at the Chief Minister, Malviya said, "These are not the bail conditions of any notorious criminal but of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. When he cannot go to the office, cannot sign files, then why is he the Chief Minister?

"He will live in a luxurious bungalow built with the hard-earned money of the people of Delhi and will not do any work. Why? Like Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, now Kejriwal is also out of jail on bail in the corruption case."

Kejriwal was arrested by the CBI in June when he was already in Tihar Jail in connection with the same case.

The Aam Aadmi Party supremo has been in jail since March 21 when he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate over money laundering allegations while framing the Delhi liquor policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped after the Lieutenant Governor raised red flags.

He was arrested by the CBI on June 26.

The ED has alleged the money Kejriwal got from the liquor sellers was used to fund the party's campaign in Goa since he is the convenor of the AAP.

Kejriwal and the AAP have throughout maintained the Centre has been misusing its agencies to harass the Opposition with false cases.

Kejriwal was given an interim bail in May for a brief period until June 2, 2024 for campaigning in the Lok Sabha polls.

He went back to the jail on June 2, 2024 the day next to the last phase poll date.

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