Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will spend the next two weeks in jail after his Enforcement Directorate custody ends today. The probe agency did not seek custody of the AAP leader, after which a local court sent him to jail till April 15.
Mr Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 after he skipped nine central agency summons and has been running his government from the ED lock-up since then.
The court has also allowed him to meet his wife Sunita Kejriwal and ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj before he is shifted to the Tihar Jail.
In Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court, where Mr Kejriwal was produced this morning before the expiry of his probe agency custody, the ED said Mr Kejriwal had been uncooperative and was giving evasive answers.
Mr Kejriwal is the third AAP leader after his former deputy Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh to be arrested in the liquor policy case. He has dubbed his arrest a “political conspiracy”.
The excise policy was introduced to bring an overhaul to the liquor business in Delhi but was scrapped after Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena ordered a probe into the alleged irregularities in the policy.
The ED believes the policy provided a high profit margin and bribe money was allegedly used to fund the AAP’s election campaigns.
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