New Delhi, March 20 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and 22 others time till April 2 to file their responses in the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) petition seeking that "adverse observations" made by the trial court against the agency while discharging them in the excise policy case be expunged. The court also expressed displeasure over their failure to file these replies within the previously stipulated time.

The bench, led by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, noted that during the previous hearing on March 10, she initially said that there was no need to seek a reply from Kejriwal and others, but allowed them to file it after their counsels insisted. They were granted time till March 19 to f...