On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal against the Delhi High Court’s decision to uphold his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering case involving the Delhi excise policy.
On April 15, Kejriwal’s petition is scheduled to be heard by a bench consisting of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta.

On April 10, Kejriwal filed a challenge in the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s decision to reject his petition against his arrest by the ED, which had been denied the day before.

Senior counsel AM Singhvi brought up Kejriwal’s petition for immediate listing on April 10, and a Bench chaired by CJI DY Chandrachud agreed to take the matter under consideration. Singhvi had mentioned the petition for immediate listing. Singhvi had said the high court’s order was based on certain material that was suppressed from the petitioner.

After the Delhi High Court denied Kejriwal’s request for protection from coercive action by the investigating agency in the money laundering case, the ED arrested him on March 21.

Kejriwal was placed under 14 days of judicial custody by a Delhi Special Court on April 1 and his ED custody would expire on April 15.

According to the ED, Kejriwal was the mastermind and a major conspirator in the excise scam, and there was evidence in its possession to support the suspicion that the AAP leader had committed money laundering.