'Can't let politician judge judicial competence': Delhi HC's Justice Swarana Kanta rejects Kejriwal's recusal plea in excise case

Kejriwal and others had filed an appeal before the high court seeking Justice Sharma's recusal in the liquor policy case, after the AAP leader's move to transfer of the case was rejected last month.

“Personal apprehension have not been able to pass the threshold of the apprehension of bias. Recusal has to stem from law and not from narrative and this is a defining moment for the court,” Swarana Kanta Sharma said even as she rejected the application filed by former Delhi chief minister Kejriwal and five others seeking her recusal from hearing (CBI)’s appeal against trial courts order.

Kejriwal, AAP's Manish Sisodia and 21 others were discharged by a trial court on February 27 in the in the excise policy case.