NEW DELHI: (Aug 17) The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to first rule on the maintainability of CBI's challenge to the discharge of AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and others in the excise policy case, saying it would hold "comprehensive" hearings in the matter and not decide it in "piecemeal".

Justice Manoj Jain granted four weeks to all discharged accused persons, including the politicians, to respond to the written submissions by the CBI, as it listed the agency's petition against their discharge on October 5 and 6.

Former Delhi chief minister Kejriwal, Sisodia and former MLA Durgesh Pathak have filed applications seeking dismissal of the CBI's revision petition for being non-maintainable.