The ED stated it might want Arvind Kejriwal’s custody once more sooner or later.
New Delhi:
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will spend the subsequent two weeks in jail within the liquor coverage case after his Enforcement Directorate custody ends in the present day. The probe company didn’t search custody of the AAP chief, after which a neighborhood courtroom this morning despatched him to jail until April 15.
The courtroom has additionally allowed him to satisfy his spouse Sunita Kejriwal and ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj earlier than he’s shifted to the Tihar Jail.
Mr Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 within the alleged liquor coverage rip-off after he skipped 9 central company summons, and has been working his authorities from the ED lock-up since then.
In Delhi’s Rouse Avenue courtroom, the place Mr Kejriwal was produced this morning earlier than the expiry of his probe company custody, the ED stated he had been “uncooperative” and was giving evasive solutions. He didn’t reveal the passwords of his digital units, the ED advised the courtroom.
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The central company, which is probing cash laundering prices within the alleged liquor coverage rip-off, additionally stated it might want his custody once more sooner or later.
Mr Kejriwal’s lawyer has demanded some medicines and a particular weight-reduction plan for him contained in the jail in view of his sickness.
The Chief Minister has additionally moved the Delhi High Court towards his arrest, arguing that his elementary rights had been violated by the probe company. The courtroom had issued a discover to the ED, looking for a reply by April 2. The listening to will resume on April 3.
Mr Kejriwal is the third AAP chief after his former deputy Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh to be arrested within the liquor coverage case. He has dubbed his arrest a “political conspiracy”.
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He had additionally addressed the courtroom throughout his final listening to and asserted no courtroom had confirmed him responsible. “The CBI has filed 31,000 pages (of chargesheets) and ED filed 25,000 pages. Even if you read them together… the question remains… why have I been arrested?” he had stated.
The excise coverage was launched to deliver an overhaul to the liquor enterprise in Delhi however was scrapped after Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena ordered a probe into the alleged irregularities within the coverage.
The ED believes the coverage supplied a excessive revenue margin and bribe cash was allegedly used to fund the AAP’s election campaigns.
