New Delhi, July 29

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the CBI and the ED to respond to senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia's bail pleas in corruption and money laundering cases linked to the Delhi excise policy 'scam' by Thursday and posted the matter for further hearing on August 5.

A Bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan deferred the hearing to next Monday after Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju sought time to file response on behalf of ED.

As Raju said the CBI had already filed its response, Justice Gavai pointed out that it had not come on the court's record. It also allowed Sisodia to file his rejoinder affidavit(s), if any, by Saturday.

The ASG questioned the maintainability of Sisodia's new petitions, saying the June 4 order of the Supreme Court only enabled the former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister to file fresh bail pleas in the trial court and not in the top court.

Taking exception to Raju's submissions, senior counsel Abhishek Mannu Singhvi, representing Sisodia, termed it as "very unfortunate".