India, March 9 -- The Delhi high court on Monday said it would pass an order staying the observations of the trial court against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and its investigating officer while discharging former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and 22 others in the now-scrapped 2021-22 Delhi excise policy case, even as it issued notice in the agency's appeal.

A bench of justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said that she would also pass an order directing the trial court to defer the money laundering case that stemmed from the CBI case and await the outcome of its appeal against the February 27 verdict.

On February 27, the trial court discharged the 23 accused, concluding that the CBI's material did not even disclose a prima facie ca...