Check out what the Delhi Court stated in Arvind Kejriwal's bail judgment to see if the ED is functioning impartially.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday. The 25-page ruling was made public on Friday, and it cited a lack of proof and possible prejudice in the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) probe into the suspected money laundering case.

The Rouse Avenue Court's Special Judge Niyay Bindu questioned the ED's investigating techniques and emphasized the absence of concrete proof connecting Kejriwal to the crime.

The court took note of the ED's inability to provide evidence on the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) purported use of the profits of crime in the 2022 Goa assembly elections. The judge emphasized that only forty crore of the purported one hundred crore had been located, and no timeframe had been given for finding the remaining sum. Judge Bindu stated, "ED has failed to clarify as to how much time is required for tracing out the complete money trail," stressing that Kejriwal's protracted imprisonment in the absence of strong evidence was intolerable.

The court further chastised the ED for relying solely on the assertions of approvers and co-accused without providing supporting documentation. The judge wrote, "The court has to take a pause to consider this argument which is not a potable submission that investigation is an art because if it is so, then, any person can be implicated and kept behind the bars by artistically procuring the material against him after artistically avoiding/withdrawing exculpatory material from the record."

The ED's silence on matters like Kejriwal's omission from the CBI's FIR and the ED's own Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) was also brought up by the court. Kejriwal was still in judicial custody despite not having been summoned by the court, according to the ED's assertion of a continuing probe.