New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain yet another petition seeking the removal of Arvind Kejriwal as Delhi Chief Minister.
Kant Bhati, who filed the petition, had challenged last month’s Delhi High Court order quashing his urge to sack Kejriwal following the latter’s arrest by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped controversial liquor policy.
Refusing to interfere in the matter, a bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta said it was up to Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) V K Saxena to act, if the situation warranted intervention.
The court was of the view that there was no legal merit to the petition.
“Ultimately it is a matter of propriety… How can we go into all this… let the LG take action if he wants to,” the court said.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief, taken into ED custody on March 21 and sent to Tihar Jail in early April, was last week granted interim bail by the top court till June 2 to campaign for Lok Sabha elections.
There have been multiple petitions asking courts to force Kejriwal to resign as CM.
The Delhi High Court in April for a third time junked a plea by a Hindu group seeking Kejriwal’s removal.
“Let democracy take its own course,” a bench led by acting Chief Justice Manmohan had said.
“He (LG Saxena) doesn’t need our guidance. We are nobody to advise him. He will do whatever he has to, in accordance with the law,” a bench led by acting Chief Justice Manmohan said.
