Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been sent back to judicial custody for 13 more days as a Delhi court prolongs his remand concerning corruption in the city’s scrapped liquor policy. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader has been under judicial custody, as further indicated in paragraph 13, since the first of April this year.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as the<|reserved_special_token_263|>–amlining the corruption charge in the formulation of the excise policy for the national capital. According to the central agency, the Chief Minister got into the act of framing the policy of prohibition on the one hand and the act of extorting money for providing liquor licenses on the other.
The ED has alleged that the AAP got ₹100 crores as bribes for the tender from the estate agency, and the money was spent on the party’s poll campaigns in Goa and Punjab.
Despite the arrest, AAP and Kejriwal have dismissed any misconduct in the provision of services that made the company go under by calling the arrest and charges a political witch hunt.
Arvind Kejriwal’s imprisonment has turned into a political war between the Central BJP government and the INDIA alliance, to which the AAP belongs.
The Supreme Court had allowed Kejriwal to go on interim bail on May 10 for Assembly elections that were underway at that time, and Kejwral immediately went on a series of tours across the country before surrendering on June 2.
However, in the recent past, due to the absence of Kejriwal, his wife Sunita Kejriwal, has become quite active and visible in the media portraying the AAP. She recently gave a power speech at a political rally where members of the INDIA bloc were present, which kindled the dearth on whether she is preparing to venture fully into politics due to her future political career in the upcoming Delhi Assembly election in the coming year.
