The Delhi High Court grants a final time window to Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Durgesh Pathak to file their replies in the CBI excise policy case. The High Court action follows a plea by the CBI for further procedural steps in a revision proceeding. According to the CBI, the three AAP leaders have already been given multiple opportunities by the court to submit their responses, and the matter has experienced “sufficient delay.”
The court’s order records that no further adjournments will be granted for the filing of replies. It gives the respondents a final period of two weeks to respond to the CBI’s plea/petition. The matter is then scheduled for further hearing on August 17 and August 18. The High Court is dealing with CBI’s challenge to an earlier trial court order through its revision petition, with the respondents expected to submit their replies within the deadline set by the court.
