With the Supreme Court set to decide on Friday on interim bail for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal so that he can campaign for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, the Enforcement Directorate has filed an affidavit opposing his plea, saying that laws are the same for everyone and that campaigning is not a fundamental, constitutional or even a legal right.
The probe agency, which arrested the AAP chief in the liquor policy case on March 21, has also pointed out that no political leader has ever been granted bail for his campaign and said releasing Mr Kejriwal from jail to recruiting his party candidates will have a major impact on the situation. a wrong precedent.
Hearing the petition on Tuesday, the Supreme Court had said that Mr Kejriwal is the elected Chief Minister of Delhi and he is not a habitual offender. “There are elections… these are extraordinary circumstances and he is not an ordinary offender,” the bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta had said.