New Delhi: Delhi High Court will consider Arvind Kejriwal’s petition next week. According to sources, Arvind Kejriwal’s petition in the High Court termed his arrest and detention as illegal, requesting his immediate release from custody.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been sent on Enforcement Directorate remand for seven days by Rouse Avenue Court. Kejriwal will now be presented in the court on March 28. However, 10 days remand was sought by ED. Kejriwal was arrested by ED from his house yesterday in the liquor policy case, after which he was produced in Rouse Avenue Court today.
A court in the national capital on Friday sent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till March 28 in a money laundering case related to excise policy. The ED claimed in the court that Kejriwal took advantage of being the Chief Minister of Delhi to launder money by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which was the “big beneficiary” of the crime proceeds in the alleged excise scam case.
“Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in nexus with Delhi government ministers, AAP leaders and other persons, is the mastermind and key conspirator of the Delhi Excise scam,” the ED said before special judge Kaveri Baweja at the Rouse Avenue court, requesting Kejriwal’s custody. This is the first time during the ED’s two-year-old investigation in the case that the agency has claimed that AAP was the “major beneficiary”.
