By our Special Correspondent
Thrissur, March 23 (IVC) Is it necessary for making such a hue and cry over the arrest and remand in custody of Enforcement Directorate, Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwl?
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 evening and was remanded on March 22 in the custody of the ED for six days till March 28 at 1400 hours.
The contentions of the opposition parties were that it was the violation of fundamental rights and the law of the land. The pertinent question arose in this regard was that the Delhi Chief Minister was exempted from the law of the land ? The Enforcement Directorate had issued nine summonses to the Delhi Chief Minister.
and he ignored all of them like grass. He was arrested when the Honorable Delhi High Court dismissed his petition for protection of law and from the arrest. The Delhi High court observed that Kejriwal had blatantly defied the summonses from ED to appear before it and take evidence on the charges framed on him.
The question that why Kejriwal did not respond to all the summonses remains answerless?
If a chief minister of a state itself defied the law of the land , then who will obey the law of the land and how the rule of law could be operated? It is the pertinent question asked among the common man.
The Special Judge (Prevention of Corruption Act) Kaveri Baweja of the Rouse Avenue Courts asked on March 22 for Kejriwal to be produced before her on March 28 at 1200 hours., when the six day remand ended on an ED plea seeking for ten days custody in the case.
The Additional Solicitor General, S V Raju representing the ED submitted before the court that Kejriwal was the key conspirator in the excise policy scam.
ED also submitted that the proceeds of crime could go beyond Rs 100 crore estimated earlier and exceeded Rs 600 crore.
The Delh Chief Minister willfully neglected all the nine summonses issued to him in this regard, ED submitted before the court.
The rule of law in the country was being operated on the universally acknowledged principles such as “Be you ever so high, the law is above you” – Thomas Fuller and “Be you ever so high, the law is higher than you”- Lord Dunnings. Besides, Article 14 of the Constitution of Indi says “ Equality before the law and equal protection of the laws” for all.
