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The Delhi HC has warned the legal cell of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over its call for protest at court complexes.

“The right to approach the court is a fundamental right. No one can be stopped, if someone stops the common people, there will be very severe consequences,” the HC warned.

Though the court was initially inclined to issue a notice, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma says that the bench will hear the case after finishing the matters mentioned in the supplementary list.

Case to be heard again after some time.

Senior advocate AM Singhvi, appearing on behalf of CM Kejriwal argues: “This is a delaying tactic. I will request to decide the matter today. There is a weighty matter that challenges the ground of arrest. I’m asking you to give me a few minutes to make my 7/8 points of arrest. I’m challenging the fundamental root of the arrest & remand.”

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) ASG SV Raju has sought time to file a detailed reply to Kejriwal's plea. He told the court that they got a copy of the petition only yesterday.

The ED is opposing Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest and subsequent remand in the Delhi liquor excise policy case.

The Delhi High Court is hearing a petition filed by jailed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.

Additional solicitor general (ASG) SV Raju is appearing on behalf of the ED. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appearing for Kejriwal.

AAP Delhi convener Gopal Rai on Wednesday said leaders of the opposition grouping, Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), will join the rally at Ramlila Maidan on March 31 to save democracy, called in the wake of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest.

“From March 28, 2,600 teams will go door-to-door inviting people to come to Ramlila Maidan. At the same time, AAP ministers and MLAs have been made observers, who will go to the assemblies and review preparations for the rally," he said. More details.

The Delhi High Court will hear a petition by jailed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the ED in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam today.

Kejriwal's plea is listed for hearing before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma at 10.30am.

Security has been tightened outside the Delhi High Court premises, PTI reports.

The high court will hear a petition by Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the ED in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam at 10.30 am.

Arvind Kejriwal's wife, Sunita Kejriwal will issue a statement at noon today, reports ANI.

Last week, she read her jailed husband's message to AAP workers and the people of Delhi. She also issued a video statement, saying that Arvind Kejriwal will continue to serve the country.

A complaint has been made to the acting Chief Justice of Delhi HC against the call for protest in Delhi Courts by the legal cell of Aam Aadmi Party, reports ANI.

A letter by the lawyer says: “Using court premises as a battleground for political parties is a gross misconduct of professional ethics and in violation of rules of bar council of India and also violation of the directions of the Supreme Court judgements.”

The legal cell of the Aam Aadmi Pary has called for a protest in the Delhi Courts at 12.30 pm today against the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal.

Officials in Delhi’s Tihar Jail are huddled in meetings over the possibility that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy, might land up at India’s largest prison, people aware of developments said on Tuesday.

If Kejriwal's appeal before the high court and, subsequently, the Supreme Court, is unsuccessful, and he is not granted bail at the hearing today, or his ED custody is extended, the CM might be sent to judicial custody, which raises the possibility of his landing up at Tihar Jail. Know more.

The public services, social welfare schemes and subsidies provided by the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi are not affected by the arrest of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi government’s secretary of the planning department has said.

"Social welfare schemes are funded with public money through the consolidated fund, backed by budgetary allocations," the department noted. "Social welfare funds are neither the personal property of any individual or political entity nor funded by an individual or an entity's personal money." More details.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s insistence on running the government from jail may eventually lead to the imposition of President’s Rule as an elected chief minister has multifold tasks, all of which cannot be practically performed while in custody, said legal and constitutional experts. Read more.

Several AAP workers were detained by the Delhi police on Tuesday, after they tried to march towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi's house to hold the ‘gherao’ protest over Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's arrest.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), meanwhile, also launched a separate protest, demanding Kejriwal's resignation. At least 57 BJP members, including the party's Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva, were also detained.

Arvind Kejriwal's petition, in which he has sought immediate release on account of the arrest and the subsequent remand to the ED being “illegal”, is listed for hearing before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi High Court at 10.30am.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday will hear a petition by jailed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.