Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will have to return to jail tomorrow after a Delhi court deferred the hearing on his petition for interim bail today. The petition will be heard on Wednesday, a day after counting for the Lok Sabha elections.
The court was hearing an application moved by Arvind Kejriwal, the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), seeking interim bail for a week on health grounds.
The probe agency claimed before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja that Kejriwal has suppressed facts and made false statements, including about his health.
The Supreme Court had, on May 10, granted interim bail to the AAP chief in the liquor policy case until today to campaign for the polls.
The Rouse Avenue court in Delhi deferred the bail petition after hearing both sides. While Mr Kejriwal's lawyer had sought seven days of interim bail, stating that the AAP chief was not keeping well and needed to undergo some tests, the Enforcement Directorate said false statements have been made about his health and he could not seek interim bail when he was not in custody.
