New Delhi, April 27 --  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal has written a strongly worded letter to Delhi High Court Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma, declaring he will neither appear personally nor through counsel before her in the Delhi excise policy case, citing a broken faith in the impartiality of the proceedings.

"My hope of getting justice from Justice Swarana Kanta has been broken. Therefore, I have decided to follow Mahatma Gandhi's path of Satyagraha," Kejriwal wrote in the letter on Monday, April 27.

The move comes days after Justice Sharma dismissed Kejriwal's recusal application on April 20, which had sought her withdrawal from the case on grounds of alleged conflict of interest and political bias.

The recusal that ...