India, Feb. 28 -- A Delhi court on Friday cleared former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his then deputy Manish Sisodia and 21 others of any wrongdoing in planning and executing the now-repealed 2021-22 Delhi excise policy, marking a dramatic twist in the high-profile case that cast a long shadow on the Capital's politics and influenced the assembly polls last year.

In a 549-page order, special judge Jitendra Singh of Rouse Avenue court discharged the accused, which also included former Telangana lawmaker K Kavitha, and said he had no hesitation in holding that the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) material did not even disclose a prima facie case, let alone a grave suspicion.

The court said that the excise policy case, as s...