The Supreme Court has sought responses from the central government and the Enforcement Directorate on a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh challenging his remand and arrest in a money-laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy case.
A top court bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti sought the Centre and ED’s responses on Sanjay Singh’s plea by December 11, PTI reported.
The bench directed that if Singh files a petition for regular bail in the interim, it should be considered independent of the observation made in the Delhi High Court’s judgement dated October 20.
In its earlier order, the Delhi High Court refused to interfere with Singh’s arrest in the case. The court said that it could not impute a political motive to a premier investigating agency in the absence of material on record.
Singh, a Delhi minister, was arrested by the ED on October 4 in the Delhi excise policy case. He approached the Supreme Court challenging the High Court’s verdict denying him bail in the case.
Singh’s arrest came as part of its probe into the Delhi excise policy case which it launched following an FIR by the Central Bureau of Investigation alleging irregularities in the conceptualisation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22.
(With PTI inputs)