The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reprimanded Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for “slandering” the judicial process with his claim that an approver in the money laundering case against him made donations to the BJP through electoral bonds, saying that the law relating to approvers had ended. 100 years and not enacted to falsely implicate AAP leader.
The high court, which rejected Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest in the money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, said it was not concerned about who bought electoral bonds for whom and that it was only responsible for applying the provisions of the law. to the case before him.
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, while dismissing the AAP national coordinator’s petition against his arrest and subsequent remand in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), said that maligning the manner of granting clemency or recording the statements of the approvers was tantamount to defaming the manner of granting the pardon or recording the statements of the approvers. the judicial process.
In his petition, Kejriwal sought his release on several grounds, including that the late statements of approvers Raghav Magunta and Sarath Reddy cannot be trusted as the latter even donated to the ruling party through electoral bonds.
Aurobindo Pharma bought electoral bonds worth Rs 5 crore on November 15, 2022, five days after one of its directors, Reddy, was arrested in the excise case by the ED. According to data released by the Election Commission, the company had purchased electoral bonds totaling Rs 52 crore with more than half going to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“In the opinion of this court, who gives tickets to participate in the elections to whom or who buys electoral bonds and for what purpose is not a matter of this court, since this court is obliged to apply the law and the recorded evidence as they are “. the court noted in its ruling. Stating that the approval law is “more than 100 years old” and was not enacted to “falsely implicate the present petitioner”, the court said the statements of the approvers against the AAP leader will be tried during the trial and will not be You can hold a mini-trial. In this point.
He said the present case was neither the first nor the last in which the statements of the approvers were recorded and the prosecution relied on them, and that Kejriwal would be free to cross-examine the approvers at the trial stage. “Doubting and defaming the manner of granting pardon or recording the statements of the approvers is tantamount to defaming the judicial process, since the granting of pardon or the recording of the statements of the approvers is not the responsibility of the investigative body.
It is a judicial process in which a judicial officer follows the provisions of the CrPC to record the statement of the approver and also to grant pardon or not,” the court said. “Without questioning the said process, holding that the pardon granted to the approver was in the “ED order in this case may be questioning the judicial process which is governed by law and not by any government or investigative agency,” he said.
The matter pertains to alleged corruption and money laundering in the formulation and execution of the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped.
Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21, hours after the high court refused to grant him protection from coercive action by the federal anti-money laundering agency.
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