Kejriwal Arrest Update: Court sent Kejriwal to ED custody for 6 days, next hearing will be on March 28.

Arvind Kejriwal Arrest Update: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to ED custody for 6 days within the Delhi Liquor Policy case. Now ED will current him within the court docket on Thursday twenty eighth March at 2 pm.

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Arvind Kejriwal Arrest Update: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will have a good time Holi this time in ED custody. A Delhi court docket (Rouse Avenue Court) has sent CM Kejriwal to ED remand until March 28 within the liquor coverage case. Now ED will current him within the court docket on Thursday 28 March 2024 at 2 pm. While presenting the information in opposition to Kejriwal in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Friday, ED mentioned that benefiting from being the Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal helped Aam Aadmi Party in cash laundering. AAP is a significant beneficiary of the proceeds of crime. ED mentioned that Arvind Kejriwal intentionally disobeyed 9 summons.

Earlier, after arresting Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday night time, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) introduced him within the Rouse Avenue Court on Friday and sought 10 days’ remand, on which the arguments of each the investigating company and the protection aspect. After hearing, the court docket has reserved its resolution. Before showing within the court docket, Kejriwal mentioned, “Whether I’m in jail or exterior, my life is devoted to serving the nation.” Meanwhile, opposition events on Friday approached the Central Election Commission, calling Kejriwal’s arrest an assault on the democratic strategy of basic elections and sought its intervention within the matter to present a degree enjoying area to the opposition events. However, the Election Commission has not but intervened on this matter.

Kejriwal withdrew the petition from the Supreme Court

A couple of hours earlier than this, Kejriwal’s attorneys had withdrawn the petition filed within the Supreme Court in opposition to the arrest. However, by then the Supreme Court had agreed to hear Kejriwal’s petition on Friday itself. The CJI had additionally mentioned at 10.45 am {that a} three-member bench would hear Kejriwal’s petition. But after a while, senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi, showing for the Chief Minister, talked about the matter earlier than the bench led by Justice Sanjeev Khanna and mentioned that he wished permission to withdraw the petition for hearing the case within the Supreme Court, as a result of the petitioner Will current his aspect through the hearing of ED’s custody petition within the decrease court docket and after that will once more file a petition within the Supreme Court.

Earlier on Friday morning, Kejriwal had made a particular point out of this matter earlier than the bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and requested for an early hearing. Singhvi had mentioned that he had to point out an ‘necessary and pressing’ matter. Singhvi had advised the court docket that, “I’m very unhappy to say that if this course of continues, many senior leaders will be behind bars earlier than the primary vote is solid within the basic elections.”

Kejriwal was arrested on Thursday night time

The ED stored Kejriwal within the ED lock-up in a single day after arresting him from his official residence on Thursday night time in reference to the Delhi Excise Policy case. After this, on Friday he was introduced in Rouse Avenue Court and requested for 10 days custody. Advocate SV Raju, showing for the ED, mentioned that Kejriwal is the ‘kingpin’ of the alleged excise rip-off and the cash obtained from this rip-off was used within the Goa meeting elections in 2022. This is the primary time within the historical past of unbiased India {that a} Chief Minister has been arrested whereas in workplace. Despite the arrest, Kejriwal nonetheless stays the top of the Delhi Government.

Opposition got here to the protection of Kejriwal

All the foremost opposition events of the nation included within the India Alliance have strongly condemned the arrest of an elected Chief Minister and the top of a political social gathering by a central authorities company after the announcement of Lok Sabha elections. The opposition has termed this motion taken after the implementation of the election code of conduct within the nation as an try by the Modi authorities to homicide democracy. Whereas BJP has supported the motion taken in opposition to Kejriwal and referred to as it an arrest below the regulation.

Before arresting him, ED had sent summons to Delhi CM a complete of 9 instances, terming which as ‘unlawful’, Kejriwal didn’t seem earlier than the company. On Thursday, Kejriwal had filed a petition within the Delhi High Court looking for to cease the ED from his attainable arrest. But the High Court didn’t give him aid. A couple of hours later, the ED group reached Kejriwal’s official residence and after a quick search and interrogation, he was arrested.

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