New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia have approached the Delhi High Court seeking dismissal of the CBI's revision petition challenging their discharge in the excise policy case, alleging that the probe agency filed the plea with "unprecedented haste" and in an "unserious manner".

Sisodia, in his application filed before the High Court, has raised preliminary objections to the maintainability of the CBI's criminal revision petition, arguing that the agency approached the court within just four hours of the trial court passing its discharge order.

According to Sisodia's plea, the Special Judge, CBI, Rouse Avenue Courts, discharged all 23 accused in the case throu...