NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday granted 3-day custody of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a case related to excise policy. The CBI had sought a five-day custody from the Rouse Avenue court.
Kejriwal was formally arrested by the CBI on Wednesday, following a directive from the court that permitted the agency to examine him and required the presentation of evidence justifying his arrest.He was escorted to the court for a hearing in the excise policy case, accompanied by his wife, Sunita Kejriwal.
Kejriwal is already in Tihar jail under Enforcement Directorate custody. The move by the CBI came as the Aam Aadmi Party chief moved the Supreme Court against Delhi high court order staying his bail in arrest by the ED.
The Court allowed Kejriwal’s wife and his Lawyer to meet him for 30 minutes every day during the remand period. The court also allowed them to carry his prescribed medicines and home-cook food allowed during the remand period.
Kejriwal, however, dropped his bail plea from SC challenging the Delhi HC’s interim stay on the trial court’s bail order in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.
Kejriwal’s counsel, senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, informed the vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti that a substantial appeal would be filed in light of new developments, including Kejriwal’s arrest.
Meanwhile, during the hearing, Kejriwal told court that he did not blame any AAP leader, including former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, for alleged irregularities in the framing of the now-scrapped liquor policy.
Kejriwal claimed that the CBI sources were building a false narrative in the media to malign the image of the ruling party in the national Capital and its leaders.
“The CBI is claiming that I have given statements against Manish Sisodia; this is wrong. Manish Sisodia is innocent, the Aam Aadmi Party is innocent, and I am also innocent,” he said.
Kejriwal was formally arrested by the CBI on Wednesday, following a directive from the court that permitted the agency to examine him and required the presentation of evidence justifying his arrest.He was escorted to the court for a hearing in the excise policy case, accompanied by his wife, Sunita Kejriwal.
Kejriwal is already in Tihar jail under Enforcement Directorate custody. The move by the CBI came as the Aam Aadmi Party chief moved the Supreme Court against Delhi high court order staying his bail in arrest by the ED.
The Court allowed Kejriwal’s wife and his Lawyer to meet him for 30 minutes every day during the remand period. The court also allowed them to carry his prescribed medicines and home-cook food allowed during the remand period.
Kejriwal, however, dropped his bail plea from SC challenging the Delhi HC’s interim stay on the trial court’s bail order in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.
Kejriwal’s counsel, senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, informed the vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti that a substantial appeal would be filed in light of new developments, including Kejriwal’s arrest.
Meanwhile, during the hearing, Kejriwal told court that he did not blame any AAP leader, including former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, for alleged irregularities in the framing of the now-scrapped liquor policy.
Kejriwal claimed that the CBI sources were building a false narrative in the media to malign the image of the ruling party in the national Capital and its leaders.
“The CBI is claiming that I have given statements against Manish Sisodia; this is wrong. Manish Sisodia is innocent, the Aam Aadmi Party is innocent, and I am also innocent,” he said.
