A Delhi court on Monday (August 12, 2024) granted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) 15 days to obtain the requisite sanctions to prosecute Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Durgesh Pathak in a corruption case pertaining to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22 scam.
Special Judge Kaveri Baweja of the Rouse Avenue Court allowed the Central agency time till August 27 to secure necessary sanctions in the case. The court’s order came after the agency submitted that it is yet to receive the sanction from the authorities concerned.
The CBI had earlier secured sanctions to investigate them in the case.
In its fifth supplementary chargesheet filed in the excise policy case, the CBI had named Mr. Kejriwal and Mr. Pathak, who is considered to be a close aide of the CM, as accused apart from naming four other people. In the final chargesheet filed in the matter, the agency had termed Mr. Kejriwal as the ‘mastermind’ of the alleged excise policy scam.
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The court, last week, had extended the judicial custody of Mr. Kejriwal, lodged in Tihar jail, in the case till August 20.
The AAP supremo had approached the Supreme Court seeking bail in the case on Monday.
Published - August 12, 2024 03:51 pm IST
