A court in Delhi has sent Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody till June 5.
Earlier on Sunday, Kejriwal surrendered at the Tihar Jail as per the terms of his bail. He was out on interim bail in the Delhi excise policy case in which he is under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Following Kejriwal’s surrender, the Rouse Avenue court took up the ED’s application for his judicial custody and sent him to custody till June 5, according to ANI.
#UPDATE | Delhi Court sent Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody till June 5. The Court noted the ED recently moved an application seeking Judicial Custody of Arvind Kejriwal. The application was pending as he was on interim bail.
— ANI (@ANI) June 2, 2024
Today after his surrender, the application was… https://t.co/AWqs7KwCa2
Kejriwal was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court. The bail order instructed him to surrender on June 2 after the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections.
Before surrendering at the Tihar Jail, Kejriwal visited the Raj Ghat to pay tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, offered prayers at the Hanuman temple in Connaught Place, and addressed AAP leaders and workers at the party office, as per PTI.
In his address, Kejriwal termed the exit polls released on Saturday as “mind games”. Exit polls unanimously predicted a victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the return of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India for the third straight term.
“They are not forming government on June 4. These exit polls are mind games to drive you into depression,” said Kejriwal, as per the news agency.
Kejriwal further said that he went to jail not because he was involved in corruption but because he stood against “dictatorship”.
“I am going back to jail not because I was involved in corruption but because I raised voice against dictatorship…I was given a 21-day (relief) by the Supreme Court. These 21 days were unforgettable. I did not waste even a minute. I campaigned for saving the country. The AAP is not important, it is secondary. The country comes first,” said Kejriwal.
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