India, May 19 -- The Delhi high court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to inform Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and Durgesh Pathak about the allocation of the agency's appeal against their discharge by a trial court on February 27 in the excise policy case to Justice Manoj Jain.

This came after Justice Jain noted that neither Kejriwal, Sisodia, nor Pathak appeared in the case, which was assigned to him after its transfer from Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. "We understand that the case has been received on transfer...the matter is already in the news, and still, if you so desire, we will not shy away from sending them to send a fresh notice that the matter is before this court, a...