After failing to transfer the bench, Delhi’s former CM now seeks the judge’s recusal , BJP calls it a choreographed drama
In a courtroom move as bold as it is unusual, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has filed a recusal application before Justice Swarn Kanta Sharma of the Delhi High Court in the liquor excise policy case and will personally argue it on Monday. The application follows a failed attempt in March to transfer the matter to a different bench entirely.
The high-stakes legal battle stems from a February 27 trial court order that discharged Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and 21 others, with Special Judge Jitendra Singh concluding in a 601-page verdict that the CBI’s material failed to establish even a prima facie case. The CBI challenged that discharge, and Justice Sharma had already signalled that the trial court’s observations were “prima facie erroneous.”
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor dismissed the recusal bid as proof of Kejriwal being “dejected and defeated on all fronts.”
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