A court in Delhi on Monday extended the hearing in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's GST law case till April 23.
Kejriwal appeared in court through a virtual conference. The court noted that the hearing of the defendant K Kavitha was also extended until April 23. The contract is over. Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on the evening of March 21 after the Supreme Court refused to grant him immunity from prosecution by the central agency.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court sought a response from the ED on Kejriwal's plea challenging his arrest. A bench comprising Supreme Court Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta asked the education ministry to file a response by April 24 and said it would take up the matter within a week from April 29.
A court rejected the petition of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, who challenged his arrest by the ED and later petitioned the government agency.
The case involves allegations of corruption and money laundering by the Delhi government in the formulation and implementation of the 2021-22 GST policy, which was later withdrawn.
Kejriwal is the first president to be arrested. His other colleagues Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain were also involved in the same case. Earlier this month, AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh walked out of Tihar jail after being granted bail from the Supreme Court.
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