Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, joined by various others formerly accused in the alleged liquor policy scam, moved a recusal application before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in the Delhi High Court on Sunday.
Kejriwal is now scheduled to appear in court tomorrow and argue the case, an AAP statement said.
AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and many other former accused in the alleged liquor scam have moved a recusal application before Justice Swarn Kanta Sharma in the Delhi High Court. Arvind Kejriwal will appear and argue in person tomorrow: AAP
— ANI (@ANI) April 5, 2026
This comes days after the Delhi court offered Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and the others formerly accused in the liquor scam one final chance to file their stand on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to erase "unwarranted" remarks that the trial court—which had discharged them on January 22—had made against the agency.
The agency had further argued that the remarks had also caused irreparable damage to its credibility.
Notably, despite seeking time during the last hearing, only one of the defendants, Vinod Chauhan, had filed his application so far, ahead of the April 22 deadline, on which the case is scheduled to be heard before Justice Sharma.
The Delhi HC has already pointed out that failure to file applications before the deadline would lead to the defendants' right to file further responses deemed lost.
After the January 22 ruling, Kejriwal, Sisodia, and 21 others accused in the liquor policy case were discharged by the Delhi court, which noted that the CBI case was wholly unable to survive judicial scrutiny, and stood discredited in its entirety.
Separately, Kejriwal and Sisodia on March 11 had appealed to Delhi HC Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, asking that the case be assigned to another "impartial" judge.
The AAP supremo had claimed in the case that he had a "grave, bona fide, and reasonable apprehension" that hearings in the liquor policy scam case would not be impartial with Judge Sharma.
In the hearing, he had also flagged Justice Sharma's order of March 9, in which she had put on hold a trial court direction to investigate the CBI officer who investigated the excise policy case.
