Liquor Policy Case | CBI Challenge To Discharge Of Kejriwal, Sisodia : Live Updates From Delhi High Court

Mehta: There is a person called Buchchi Babu. WhatsApp chats corroboration.

Mehta: I have given witness after witness that they are corroborating.

Mehta: He narrates everything, when he collected money. Discharge is not for the stage of corroboration.

Mehta reads a statement of a prosecution witness. He says: I am skipping names. I don’t want to sensationalise politician names.

Mehta: There are witness statements. Examination has to be done at the stage of trial, not at discharge stage.

Who are the independent witnesses? Court asks.

Mehta: PW-20 and hotel records.

Mehta; I will show how the order is perverse. Approver statements don’t need corroboration except at the stage of trial…. Would the court be finding out suspicion or a triable case to put the accused on trial?

Mehta: When we allege conspiracy, we have to establish each part. All parts have to be assembled to make it a conspiracy in trial. Conspiracy is never hatched in open. Even this is disbelieved in discharge order, not acquittal order.

Mehta: Several documents collected, witnesses examined. We have collected emails, WhatsApp chats. This is not something in air. Unfortunately we could not convince but my learned friend concluded submissions and within 12 days, 600 page judgment. Speedy justice is a goal but it shouldn’t result into miscarriage.

Mehta: I have not seen such meticulous evidence being collected by any agency. I am not making any hyper statement. I want to make that good.

Mehta: Clear case of corruption, bribe being taken, accepted, utilised, meetings taking place, forensic evidence.