Overview
- Enforcement Directorate officials filed the appeals on Monday, and Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma is set to hear the petitions on Wednesday.
- The trial court’s January 22 orders cleared Arvind Kejriwal after finding the agency had not proved intentional disobedience and had relied on email summons not provided for under criminal procedure or the PMLA.
- The ED argues Kejriwal intentionally avoided questioning, raised frivolous objections, and was linked by other accused to a liquor policy that allegedly yielded undue benefits and kickbacks to the Aam Aadmi Party.
- In a separate track, a trial court discharged Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and 21 others in the CBI’s liquor policy case on February 27, and the CBI’s challenge is pending in the High Court with a hearing listed for April 6.
- Kejriwal remains on interim bail in the ED’s money‑laundering case, and the Supreme Court has referred questions on when arrests are necessary under the PMLA to a larger bench, a move that could shape future summons and arrest powers.