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The Delhi High Court is set to pronounce its judgment tomorrow on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking a stay on the trial court’s decision to grant bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case. Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain will announce the verdict at 2:30 PM on June 25. Kejriwal was granted bail by the trial court on June 20, following which ED challenged this decision in the Delhi High Court on June 21. In the interim, the central probe agency urgently requested a stay on the order granting bail. The vacation judge of last week, Justice Jain, heard ED’s plea on Friday and reserved judgment on the stay application, ordering that the previous order would remain stayed until the pronouncement of the new decision. Following this, Kejriwal approached the Supreme Court against the stay granted by the High Court. Today, a vacation bench led by Justice Manoj Misra adjourned the hearing to June 24. The Apex Court remarked that the High Court’s approach of reserving the order on ED’s stay application was ‘unusual’, as typically stay orders are passed immediately after the hearing. While the hearing was adjourned, the Apex Court refrained from pre-judging the issue pending the High Court’s decision. This case stems from Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21, followed by interim bail granted by the Supreme Court until June 1 for the general elections, after which he surrendered on June 2.
