Jammu, March 10 Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia on Tuesday expressed full confidence in the judiciary and said that he and others who were recently discharged in the excise policy case but were later served notices by the Delhi High Court would follow all legal processes.
Sisodia, who visited the family of detained AAP MLA Mehraj Malik at his official residence to express the party's support, was responding to a question about his reaction to the latest high court notice.
"Whatever the court's procedures, we respect the court and will follow all legal processes," he told reporters in Jammu.
The high court on Monday sought responses from former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and 21 others on a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging their discharge in the case by a trial court.
On February 27, the trial court discharged Kejriwal, Sisodia and others, criticizing the CBI by stating that its case was wholly unable to withstand judicial scrutiny and was discredited in its entirety.
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi High Court issued notice to all the accused and listed the CBI's petition for hearing on March 16.
"A reply should be filed," Justice Sharma had ordered.
The court said it would pass an order asking the trial court to defer proceedings in the related money-laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate, to await the outcome in the present matter.
The CBI had contended that the trial court order discharging Kejriwal and Sisodia in the excise policy case was perverse and had "turned criminal law on its head".