New Delhi, May 3 -- The Supreme Court on Friday said it may consider granting interim bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in view of the ongoing elections and asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take instructions by Tuesday on the conditions of bail to be imposed and suggest ways in which Kejriwal could continue to sign off on official files while in custody.

The suggestion by the court came while hearing a petition filed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor challenging his arrest on March 21 in connection with Delhi's now scrapped excise policy.

With the hearing on the petition remaining inconclusive and the matter getting adjourned to Tuesday, a bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said, "If this petition...