ED's Response To Arvind Kejriwal's Plea Against Arrest : Live Updates From Supreme Court

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3 May 2024 1:00 PM IST

  • EDs Response To Arvind Kejriwals Plea Against Arrest : Live Updates From Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court will hear today at 2 PM the petition filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the ED in the Delhi liquor policy case.ED has to respond today to the queries raised by the Court, including the question regarding the timing of his arrest before the elections.A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta is hearing the matter....

    The Supreme Court will hear today at 2 PM the petition filed by Delhi Chief Minister  Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the ED in the Delhi liquor policy case.

    ED has to respond today to the queries raised by the Court, including the question regarding the timing of his arrest before the elections.

    A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta is hearing the matter. A detailed report about the arguments raised by Kejriwal's lawyer Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi can be read here.

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    Live Updates

    • 3 May 2024 3:27 PM IST

      Raju citing a judgment to propose that credibility of material cannot be gone into

    • 3 May 2024 3:25 PM IST

      J Khanna: S.437 does not deal with a situation envisaged by S.19

      Raju: Words used are almost similar. I am only on how it has been interpreted.

    • 3 May 2024 3:24 PM IST

      Raju: kindly see S.45 PMLA...

      J Khanna: the onus is probably on you.

    • 3 May 2024 3:23 PM IST

      J Datta: the arrest under PMLA is not the lowest threshold

      Raju: I am aware

      J Datta: Then you should have put it differently

    • 3 May 2024 3:20 PM IST

      Raju: There are 4 different stages on which reasons to believe are accessed...the lowest is at the time of arrest

    • 3 May 2024 3:19 PM IST

      J Khanna: my clerks did a little research work on 'reasons to believe'...if you want, I can...VMC says threshold is higher than normal

    • 3 May 2024 3:18 PM IST

      Raju: circumstances which is not considered must be shown by them as one which would vitiate my...the 9 earlier statements have nothing to do

    • 3 May 2024 3:17 PM IST

      J Datta gives a hypothetical situation

      J Datta: you say papers will pile up, is that proper exercise of power?

      Raju: I am saying if it is relevant to consider, you must. But it's not for someone else to say you should have considered this

    • 3 May 2024 3:15 PM IST

      Raju: some things are irrelevant...records would be voluminous. it can't be on no material...that can't be what was contemplated by law

    • 3 May 2024 3:13 PM IST

      J Khanna: is that according to you right interpretation or wrong?

      Raju: I am not supposed to consider every material

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