On Monday, The Delhi High Court criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government for its handling of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report. The administration "dragged its feet" to stop the Assembly session from happening, according to a single-judge panel led by Justice Sachin Datta.

"The way you have dragged your feet raises doubts about your bona fides. You should have promptly forwarded the reports to the Speaker and initiated a discussion in the House," the court said. "Doubts about your (the AAP's) bona fides" were created, it said, by the Delhi government's handling of the case and its tardiness in forwarding the CAG reports to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. 

The AAP government responded to the court by questioning how an Assembly session could be called given the near-term nature of elections. On Monday at 2:30 pm, the High Court will hear the case in detail. During the last hearing, the Delhi Assembly Secretariat told the Court that presenting the CAG reports in the Assembly would not be useful because the Assembly's term ends in February. This was in response to a petition filed by seven BJP MLAs requesting that the CAG reports be tabled in the Assembly.

A political discussion was recently triggered in advance of the Assembly elections by a leaked CAG report that exposed multiple irregularities in the planning, tendering and implementation of restoration work at the Delhi Chief Minister's residence. The project was first approved in 2020 for Rs 7.61 crore, but by April 2022, it had grown to Rs 33.66 crore, a 342% increase from the initial estimate. A revenue loss of Rs 2,026 crore to the exchequer was also disclosed in the report as a result of purported anomalies in the execution of Delhi's now-cancelled liquor policy.