Another plea was filed on Supreme Court to remove Arvind Kejriwal as Chief Minister of Delhi. The Supreme Court has now snubbed petition seeking the removal of Arvind Kejriwal as Chief Minister following his arrest in March in the alleged liquor policy scam case.

The plea was filed by Kant Bhati, who challenged a Delhi High Court order last month quashing his request to sack Mr Kejriwal.

A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta said it was up to Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena to act, if the situation warranted intervention, and refused to interfere. The court said there was no legal merit to the petition and noted, "Ultimately it is a matter of propriety." "How can we go into all this... let the LG take action if he wants to..." the court said.

The court's handing off the plea to the Lieutenant Governor could open a fresh front in the ongoing squabble between Mr Saxena and the AAP, particularly after the former called for an anti-terror probe into allegations the Chief Minister received funding from the banned Sikhs For Justice group.

Petitions asking the courts to force Kejriwal to resign have been frequent since the Aam Aadmi Party leader was sent to Delhi's Tihar Jail last month, and have continued since his release last week on interim bail.

In April the Delhi High Court junked - for a third time - a plea by a Hindu group seeking the AAP boss' removal; the court said "let democracy take its own course".

"He (Mr Saxena) doesn't need our guidance. We are nobody to advise him. He will do whatever he has to, in accordance with the law," a bench led by acting Chief Justice Manmohan said.