India, April 28 -- In a letter to justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi High Court, former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that neither he nor his counsel will participate in further proceedings before the judge in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s appeal against his discharge in the excise policy case, saying that he doubted he could receive an "impartial hearing" in the court. This comes a week after his plea seeking the judge's recusal was dismissed.

In a four-page letter, that he also shared on X, the AAP national convenor said that, after the dismissal of his application, he had carefully reflected on the options available to him. Saying that his "well-grounded apprehensions" remained unresolved, he...