CBI detains Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in connection with liquor policy case

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested the chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal in alleged connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. Meanwhile, the court has allowed the CBI to examine Kejriwal in the court and to produce the documents they have for his arrest.

CBI formally arrests Delhi CM and AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal in the Excise Policy case. pic.twitter.com/op3Y7DzTVe

— ANI (@ANI) June 26, 2024

Opposing the decision, the Aam Aadmi Party taking it to its official handle said that BJP has hatched a conspiracy against Kejriwal to get him arrested by CBI in a fake case. The tweet further reads, “Every conspiracy of BJP will be answered, truth will win in the end.”

तानाशाह के हर जुल्म का जवाब इंक़लाब से देंगे💪

आज जब BJP को लगा कि दिल्ली के बेटे @ArvindKejriwal को सुप्रीम कोर्ट से जमानत मिल सकती है तो उन्होंने फिर से फ़र्ज़ी केस में CBI से CM केजरीवाल को गिरफ्तार करवाने की साजिश रची।

BJP की हर साजिश का जवाब दिया जाएगा, जीत आखिर में सत्य… pic.twitter.com/teqKwQieh7

— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) June 26, 2024

The probe agency while presenting him in Delhi Rouse Avenue court said that the agency could have performed the exercise earlier, but was holding it because of the Lok Sabha elections.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will hear Kejriwal’s petition against the Delhi High Court order putting an interim bail stay in money laundering case linked to the Delhi Excise policy case.

Kejriwal has been arrested against the allegations of irregularities of now scrapped Delhi Excise Policy of 2021. The probe in the case was started in July 2022.