India, April 28 -- A day after former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal told the Delhi high court that neither he nor his counsel would appear before justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Tuesday sent a similar letter, saying he too would boycott further proceedings in the CBI's appeal against their discharge in the excise policy case.

In his four-page letter, Sisodia said he was in respectful agreement with the stand taken by Kejriwal, but raised two concerns that continued to trouble him - the judge's repeated public association with the Akhil Bhartiya Adhivakta Parishad (ABAP), and her children's professional engagements with multiple Union government panels, which he argued created an appearance of proximity to law ...