A Delhi court has dismissed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea seeking more time with his legal team, saying he was using his allotted time for “other work”.
The Delhi Chief Minister had requested the court to allow him to meet his legal team five times a week instead of just two meetings as granted currently.
In its order, the court said, “It appears that the applicant is not even utilising the permitted two legal interviews per week with his counsels solely for discussing his pending litigations. He has rather used the allotted time for purposes other than legal interviews.”
The court observed that Arvind Kejriwal failed to satisfy this court that he had been using the two permitted legal meetings per week solely to discuss the pending litigations with his counsels.
“The status report filed by the ED indicates that the applicant had dictated certain directions for being passed on to the Water Minister, to one of his lawyers (whose name he refused to disclose to the Investigating Agency) during the course of a legal meeting,” the court order read.
Meanwhile, AAP leader Sanjay Singh has claimed that an inquiry has been launched into Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sending messages to his MLAs through his lawyers from Tihar jail.
After Kejriwal sent a message to AAP MLAs asking them to visit their constituencies and solve people’s problems, a “threat was issued” that his meetings with his lawyers and family members would be stopped, Singh claimed at a press conference without naming anyone.
The AAP Rajya Sabha MP alleged that he and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann wanted to meet Kejriwal in jail but the meeting was cancelled by the prison authorities, even though a token number had been issued for it.
Kejriwal has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam. He is in judicial custody till April 15 and is currently lodged in Tihar jail. Since his arrest on March 21, he has sent messages to his party leaders and directions to Delhi ministers through his wife and lawyers.
Singh hit out at the Modi government and the ruling BJP, saying that they want to keep Kejriwal in Tihar under “Hitlarshahi” to break him emotionally.
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