The Aam Aadmi Party chief is already in jail. He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in March in a money-laundering case linked to the policy.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on Wednesday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the liquor policy case, Bar and Bench reported.
The Aam Aadmi Party chief is already in jail after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 in the money-laundering case related to the now-scrapped liquor policy.
On Wednesday, Special Judge Amitabh Rawat of the Rouse Avenue Courts allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation to interrogate Kejriwal following which the agency arrested him, reported Bar and Bench. A day earlier, the central agency recorded Kejriwal’s statement from jail and sought to produce him before the trial court on Wednesday.
The case by the Central Bureau of Investigation was registered on a complaint made by Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on July 20, 2022.
The Central Bureau of Investigation proceeded to question Kejriwal on the same day when the Supreme Court is to pronounce its judgement on Delhi High Court’s Tuesday order that stayed his bail in the arrest by the Enforcement Directorate.
