India, March 22 -- Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday withdrew from the Supreme Court his petition challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) a day earlier for his alleged role in the irregularities in the now-scrapped 2021-22 Delhi excise policy, hours after his legal team presses for an urgent hearing and the top court even agreed to hear the plea later in the day.

Senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Kejriwal, told justice Sanjiv Khanna that his client would rather argue before the trial court where the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener is expected to be produced in the afternoon. ED is likely to seek custodial remand of Kejriwal that Singhvi said would be contested.

"As the remand proceedings b...