India, April 20 -- Delhi High Court judge Swarana Kanta Sharma on Monday started delivering her order on whether she would recuse from the Delhi liquor policy case against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and others who have expressed "apprehension of bias". She was reading from the judgment she is to deliver, but the final verdict was not yet out.

The controversy arose as Justice Sharma presided over cases linked to an alleged scam in the Delhi excise (liquor sales) policy.

After a trial court discharged Kejriwal and 22 other accused on February 27 this year - concluding that the CBI's material did not form a case worth going to trial even - the CBI challenged that order before the High Court, and Justice Sharma, at the first hearing of the C...