Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal sent to judicial custody till July 12
A Delhi court accepted the CBI’s request on Saturday and remanded Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal in judicial custody for 14 days in connection with a money laundering case relating to the alleged liquor policy scam.
The AAP head will remain in jail till July 12 and will be brought before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court again at roughly 2 p.m. via video conference.
The court judgment came hours after the federal investigative agency requested a 14-day judicial remand for Kejriwal, claiming that his confinement was necessary in the “interest of the investigation and justice”.
Sunena Sharma, Special Judge, postponed the ruling on the plea after Kejriwal was brought before the court after his three-day police custody period expired.
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Kejriwal did not cooperate during interrogation: CBI
The CBI alleged in its remand motion that Arvind Kejriwal refused to participate during prison interrogation. The investigation agency further claimed that Kejriwal intentionally supplied evasive responses that contradicted the data on record.
“On being confronted with the evidence, he did not give a proper and truthful explanation regarding the enhancement of the profit margin for wholesalers from 5 per cent to 12 per cent under the new excise policy of Delhi 2021-22, without any study or justification,” it said.
