India, March 10 -- Observations made by a trial court while discharging former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and 22 others in connection with the now scrapped Delhi excise policy in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case were "prima facie erroneous", the Delhi high court said on Monday and issued notice in the agency's appeal.

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma also stayed till March 16 the trial court's February 27 order directing departmental action against CBI's investigating officer and observations against him, noting that the remarks were "prima facie foundationally misconceived especially when made at the stage of charge itself."

Justice Sharma also requested the trial court to defer the Enforcement Directorate's money l...