New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking to remove Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister of Delhi.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said that the Court was not inclined to interfere with the Delhi High Court's judgment dismissing the plea to remove Kejriwal as the Chief Minister of Delhi.
How should we go into all this? Let the LG take action if he wants to," Justice Khanna said.
The bench also pointed out that the petitioner who has approached the Supreme Court, Kant Bhati, was not the petitioner before the High Court.
The petitioner claimed that Kejriwal, who was in judicial custody over the Delhi Liquor Policy case, had incurred incapacity to carry out his Constitutional obligations and functions under Articles 239AA (4), 167(b) and (c) of the Constitution. Hence he could no longer function as the Chief Minister.
He also averred that the Delhi Lieutenant Governor was being prevented from discharging his Constitutional obligations under Article 167(c) of the Constitution due to the absence of access to the Chief Minister.