The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the
responses of several AAP leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal, and BRS leader K
Kavitha on the ED's plea challenging a trial court's order directing it to
supply "unrelied documents" to those accused in the alleged money
laundering case related to the excise policy.
Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri issued notices to all the
40 accused on the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) petition as well as its
application for stay in the case.
The high court listed the matter for further hearing
on January 30 next year.
Besides former Delhi chief minister Kejriwal, AAP
leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh and several businessmen are among the
accused in the case.
In November, the trial court directed the ED to
supply the chargesheet and the digitised records of the remaining
"unrelied documents" (those which are not used by the prosecution to
support their case) to the persons accused in the case.
The ED counsel said the trial court had given the ED
direction at the stage of scrutiny of documents to supply unrelied upon
documents to the accused. However, according to the apex court's direction,
only a list of unrelied upon documents have to be given at this stage and not
the documents, the counsel argued.
The high court was informed that the case before the
trial court is fixed for December 21.
According to the CBI and the ED, irregularities were
allegedly committed while modifying the excise policy and undue favours were
extended to the licence holders.
The Delhi government implemented the policy on
November 17, 2021, and scrapped it by the end of September 2022 amid
allegations of corruption.
The money laundering case stems from a CBI case lodged after Delhi
Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena recommended a probe into the alleged
irregularities in the implementation of the excise policy.