Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Kejriwal, earlier mentioned the application for urgent listing considering that the Chief Minister is required to surrender on June 1 in the money laundering case registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
“Only 7 days extension. This is just a medical extension and not abuse of liberty,” Singhvi submitted.
However, the Court said only the CJI can take a call on the listing.
It further asked why the application was not mentioned before Justice Dipankar Datta who was heading a vacation bench last week.
It was a bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Datta which had on May 10 granted interim bail to Kejriwal till June 1 so that he can campaign in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
In response to the Justice Maheshwari’s query today, Singhvi said the prescription was given only day before yesterday and that is why the application could not be moved last week.
The Court reiterated that it can’t take a decision about the listing and referred the matter to CJI for an appropriate order.
Source: Barandbench
