India, Feb. 28 -- A Rouse Avenue court, which on Friday discharged former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and 22 others in the politically-charged liquor-policy case, expressed its displeasure with the CBI for using the phrase "South Group" while cautioning it to exercise restraint in its choice of language.

The court also said such a nomenclature finds no foundation in law, does not correspond to any legally-cognisable classification and is wholly alien to the statutory framework governing criminal liability.

"The court considers it necessary to place on record its concern with the repeated and deliberate use of the expression, 'South Group', by the investigating agency to describe a set of accused persons, ostensibly based on their reg...