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Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal said that he would not appear in person or through a lawyer before a Delhi High Court bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. The judge is hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s challenge to him and several others being discharged in the liquor policy case.
The former Delhi chief minister’s comments came a week after Sharma on April 20 rejected his plea that she recuse herself from hearing the case. During the hearings, Kejriwal had raised concerns about her “perceived ideological proximity”, referring to Sharma attending events of an organisation linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Kejriwal had also contended that the judge’s children had been empanelled as counsels by the Union government and had been allocated cases by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is representing the CBI in the liquor policy case. Read on.
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