New Delhi: A Delhi court has extended the judicial custody of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his former deputy Manish Sisodia, BRS legislator K Kavitha, and other accused, in the case related to the national capital's now-scrapped liquor policy.
Special Judge Kaveri Baweja of Rouse Avenue Court extended, till August 9, judicial custody of the accused in CBI case and till August 13 in the money laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The Rouse Avenue Court's order applies to investigations being conducted by both the Central Bureau of Investigation and the ED. While Sisodia, a senior leader of the Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Kavitha, from Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), are in custody in connection with the corruption case lodged by the CBI, Kejriwal secured interim bail from the Supreme Court in ED's money laundering case but remains in custody due to the CBI case against him.
Kejriwal, the first person to be arrested as a sitting chief minister and who continues to hold the post, surrendered on June 1, as directed by the apex court. On July 12, he got interim bail for the second time, but remains behind the bars.
The CBI has called him ‘sutradhar’ (facilitator) in the alleged excise policy scam, in its fifth and final charge sheet. Both Kejriwal and AAP have repeatedly dismissed the charges as a ‘political vendetta’ of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre.
