NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has agreed to furnish a personal bail bond of Rs 10,000 to seek his release from Tihar jail in the Nitin Gadkari defamation case after the Delhi High Court suggested him to do so.
A division bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Sunita Gupta allowed senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for Kejriwal to meet him in Tihar Jail and seek his instruction on the issue of filing personal bond.
The bench also asked Kejriwal not to make it as an issue of "prestige" and opined that he should first seek bail.
"Why are you taking (it) as a prestige? Don't make it a question of prestige. File your personal bond, seek his (Kejriwal) release today(May 26). We can direct it now. You take instructions from him," the court said and posted the matter post lunch for May 27.
Kejriwal on May 26 moved a habeas corpus petition for his immediate release, saying he has been "illegally" sent to judicial custody on a "completely wrong premise of law" by the court's orders of May 21 and May 23.
He challenged a trial court order sending him to judicial custody.
Kejriwal is in judicial custody till June 6 after he refused to furnish a personal bond in a defamation case filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari.
He refused to pay the bail bond of Rs.10,000 and was sent to the Tihar Jail.
"Kejriwal has been illegally sent to judicial custody till June 6 for refusing to furnish the bail bond in a summon case on a private complaint even though it was not mandatory and he was ready to give a written undertaking," said the plea.
A division bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Sunita Gupta allowed senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for Kejriwal to meet him in Tihar Jail and seek his instruction on the issue of filing personal bond.
The bench also asked Kejriwal not to make it as an issue of "prestige" and opined that he should first seek bail.
"Why are you taking (it) as a prestige? Don't make it a question of prestige. File your personal bond, seek his (Kejriwal) release today(May 26). We can direct it now. You take instructions from him," the court said and posted the matter post lunch for May 27.
Kejriwal on May 26 moved a habeas corpus petition for his immediate release, saying he has been "illegally" sent to judicial custody on a "completely wrong premise of law" by the court's orders of May 21 and May 23.
He challenged a trial court order sending him to judicial custody.
Kejriwal is in judicial custody till June 6 after he refused to furnish a personal bond in a defamation case filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari.
He refused to pay the bail bond of Rs.10,000 and was sent to the Tihar Jail.
"Kejriwal has been illegally sent to judicial custody till June 6 for refusing to furnish the bail bond in a summon case on a private complaint even though it was not mandatory and he was ready to give a written undertaking," said the plea.
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