India, April 27 -- Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi high court stating that neither he nor his counsel will participate in further proceedings before her in the CBI's appeal against his discharge in the excise policy case, a week after his plea seeking her recusal was dismissed.

In a four-page letter written on Monday, the AAP chief said that after the dismissal of his application by the April 20 order, he had carefully reflected on the options available to him. He added, with "utmost respect", that his well-founded apprehensions remained unresolved.

According to Kejriwal, the judgment left him with the difficult but unavoidable impression that what he had raised as a l...