The
Supreme Court on Monday fixed June 26 for hearing Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal's plea against the Delhi High Court order putting interim stay on his
bail in the money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.
A
vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti said it would like to
wait for the pronouncement of the high court order on the matter.
Senior
Advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for Kejriwal, sought vacating of the
interim stay on the bail order.
Stating
that Kejriwal is not a flight risk, Singhvi urged the bench to stay the high
court order before it is being pronounced.
"I
know what I am asking. This court must stay the high court order before it is
being pronounced just like the high court had stayed the bail order on mere mentioning
by the Enforcement Directorate," he submitted.
ASG
SV Raju, appearing for the ED, opposed the plea of Kejriwal, and said the high
court is about to pronounce the verdict on its stay application.
The
bench noted that the high court had on June 21 asked the parties to file
written submissions till June 24 and observed that the order is likely to be
pronounced in a day or two.
Justice
Misra, however, observed that the stay order is normally pronounced the same
day and not reserved.
"It's
unusual," he observed and added that the court would like to wait for the
high court order to get the clear picture on the issue.
The
bench at the outset told Singhvi that pronouncing any order at this stage would
be prejudging the issue.
"We
will be pre-judging the issue, if we pass any order at this stage. It is not
some other court but the high court," the bench told Singhvi.
The
high court had on Friday paused Kejriwal's release after the trial court
granted him bail on June 20.