India, March 16 -- Delhi high court chief justice DK Upadhyaya has denied the request of former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and others to transfer the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s appeal against their discharge in the excise policy case by a trial court to a different bench from the current bench of justice Swarana Kanta Sharma.

Following the refusal, Kejriwal, along with former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, moved the Supreme Court seeking directions to transfer the CBI's appeal from justice Sharma's bench to another bench. In the petition, Kejriwal also challenged the high court's March 9 order issuing notice in the CBI's appeal against the trial court's observations and staying departmental action against th...