India, March 17 -- Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said his party had cleared the "agnipariksha" (trial by fire), after the court ruling on the excise policy case.

Kejriwal further dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct Assembly elections in Delhi again, claiming that AAP would register a victory if the polls were to be held now, news agency PTI reported.

This comes after a trial court discharged Kejriwal and 22 others in the excise policy case, while also pulling up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The court said the agency's case was wholly unable to survive judicial scrutiny, and stood discredited.

Speaking about the verdict, the AAP leader said some people had been asking why he had stayed silent ...