After Probe Agency Claims He's "Uncooperative"...
Monday, April 1,2024, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will spend the next two weeks in jail in the liquor policy case after his Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody ends.
The probe agency did not seek custody of the AAP leader, after which a local court sent him to jail till April 15.
The court has allowed him to meet his wife Sunita Kejriwal and ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj before he is shifted to the Tihar Jail.
On March 21, Mr. Kejriwal was arrested in the alleged liquor policy scam after he skipped nine central agency summons, and has been running his government from the ED lock-up since then.
In Delhi's Rouse Avenue court, where Mr Kejriwal was produced this morning before the expiry of his probe agency custody, the ED said he had been "uncooperative" and was giving evasive answers.
He did not reveal the passwords of his digital devices, the ED told the court.
The central agency, which is probing money laundering charges in the alleged liquor policy scam, also said it may need his custody again in the future.
Mr. Kejriwal's lawyer has demanded some medicines and a special diet for him inside the jail in view of his illness.
Edited By: Arusha Farooq
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