Kejriwal reaches Supreme Court! After the setback from the High Court, now there is talk of ‘change of judge’ Demand, will there be relief from the top court?

AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal: Aam Aadmi Party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has approached the Supreme Court against the High Court’s decision in the liquor scam case. The High Court had rejected Arvind Kejriwal’s petition in which he had demanded to change the judge hearing the case, Swarn Kanta Sharma. Arvind Kejriwal had accused the judge of bias. However, after getting a setback from the High Court, Kejriwal has now moved the Supreme Court.

An appeal was made to list the CBI petition filed by Arvind Kejriwal and others against the decision to acquit them in the liquor scam case before some other judge instead of Justice Swarnkanta Sharma.

High Court’s reaction on the matter

According to sources familiar with the development, Justice Upadhyay said that as per the roster, Justice Sharma is hearing the CBI petition filed against the decision of the subordinate court and there is no reason to list the petition before any other judge. The Chief Justice made it clear that only the judge concerned can take the decision to recuse himself from a petition.

The petition will be heard on Monday

The CBI plea is listed before Justice Swarnakanta Sharma on Monday. Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia and others had on March 11 presented a representation before Chief Justice Upadhyay requesting to hand over the CBI petition to an impartial judge in place of Justice Swarnakanta.

What did Arvind Kejriwal say?

In the report, Kejriwal claimed that he had a serious, real and reasonable apprehension that the case would not be given a fair trial. Let us tell you, on February 27, the lower court had reprimanded the CBI while acquitting Kejriwal, Sisodia and 21 others.

Prohibition on investigation against CBI officer

On March 9, Justice Sharma’s bench had stayed the lower court’s order to initiate departmental action against the CBI investigating officer in the excise policy case. Justice Sharma had sought response from all the 23 accused on the CBI petition. He had said that certain findings and observations made during the process of framing charges prima facie appear to be wrong and need to be considered.

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Kejriwal’s claim

Arvind Kejriwal claimed that their apprehensions were based on the judge’s prior conduct. He said that on the very first day of the revision petition filed by the CBI against the decision to discharge him, Justice Sharma, without even hearing the arguments of the other side, recorded a prima facie opinion that there were errors in the detailed order of the trial court.