Overview
- Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said Tuesday she will name three senior advocates to act as amici for Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Durgesh Pathak after they chose to go unrepresented.
- An amicus curiae is a lawyer the court appoints to assist on law and facts when a party refuses to appear or lacks counsel.
- The court will issue the appointment order Friday, May 8, and then hear the CBI’s revision petition against the discharge.
- The boycott followed the judge’s April 20 refusal to recuse, after which the AAP leaders wrote that they would not appear personally or through a lawyer and invoked Satyagraha.
- The CBI is contesting a February 27 trial court ruling that cleared 23 accused and criticized its probe, observations the High Court said appeared erroneous as it stayed adverse remarks against the agency on March 9.