The Delhi Excessive Court docket Friday refused to grant an early listening to date to former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in his plea searching for quashing of a trial courtroom order taking cognisance of the ED chargesheet towards him within the cash laundering case.
This implies, the HC will hear Kejriwal’s plea as per the schedule on December 20.
With no keep on the trial towards Kejriwal within the ED case within the alleged excise coverage rip-off, the trial courtroom is because of take up the case subsequent on December 13.
Whereas senior advocate N Hariharan representing Kejriwal pressed for advancing the following date of listening to earlier than the HC, Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri Friday indicated that the identical is not going to be potential owing to numerous issues already listed earlier than him.
Hariharan alternatively additionally requested the courtroom to direct the prosecution to serve Kejriwal with their reply upfront, following which Justice Ohri orally instructed ED to do the identical.
Kejriwal is searching for the quashing of the trial courtroom’s order from July 9 the place it had taken cognisance of the seventh supplementary chargesheet filed by the ED.
Counting on a 2024 Supreme Court docket verdict, he has contended that summoning of an accused “with none recent/extra proof within the supplementary chargesheet… is nothing however a assessment of the unique order of summoning and as such abuse of the method of courtroom”.
