The Supreme Court on Thursday commenced the hearing on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal`s pleas seeking bail and challenging his arrest by the CBI in the alleged excise policy scam.

Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the chief minister, told a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan that Kejriwal was not named in the CBI FIR and moreover, he is not a “flight risk”.