India, Feb. 27 -- A Delhi court on Friday, while discharging former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and 22 others in the CBI's excise policy case, delivered sharp remarks about the probe agency itself, questioning its decision to label a purported group of liquor businessmen from southern India as the "south group" in its chargesheet.

The court even referred to a case in the United States where a court had objected to a regional tag being used - in that case "Dominican" for alleged drug dealers who happened to be from the Dominican Republic.

The order by Special Judge Jitender Singh of the Rouse Avenue Court said, "The Court considers it necessary to place on record its concern with the repeated and deliberate use of the expression 'South Grou...