The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal till June 1 to participate in election campaigns. The apex  court directed Kejriwal to surrender on June 02.

The top court’s two-judge bench, led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna and also comprising Justice Dipankar Datta pronounced the order.

Today, the ED opposed the grant of interim bail to Kejriwal on ground of electioneering, said that no such precedents available.

Earlier on Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a fresh affidavit opposing the grant of interim bail to Kejriwal, saying the right to campaign in elections is neither fundamental nor constitutional.

“The right to campaign for an election is neither a fundamental right nor a constitutional right and not even a legal right. The agency also submitted that a politician cannot claim a higher status than an ordinary citizen and was not entitled to differential treatment,” the ED in its affidavit told the top court.

“Even a contesting candidate cannot be granted interim bail for his own campaigning,” the ED said. The ED said that if the apex court granted interim bail to Kejriwal on the grounds of elections, then this “will create a precedent which would permit all unscrupulous politicians to commit crimes, avoid investigation under the garb of election.”