Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by a Delhi court on Thursday in the excise policy case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The court refused the ED's request to postpone the bail process by 48 hours to challenge the order in the High Court.
In the 25-page bail order, the judge quoted Benjamin Franklin, saying "It is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer". The court also noted that the ED failed to clarify how much time it required to trace the complete money trail and that the agency was acting with bias.
The AAP hailed the court's decision as a "historic verdict" and a "slap on the face of opponents of democracy". Kejriwal is likely to be released from jail by noon on Friday after furnishing a bail bond of ₹1 lakh.
The ED had arrested Kejriwal on March 21 in connection with the alleged excise policy scam, making him the first sitting chief minister in India to be put behind bars. He was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court last month to campaign in the Lok Sabha elections.
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