Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to judicial custody until July 12 by a Delhi court in connection with corruption charges related to the 2021-22 excise policy. Kejriwal was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on June 26 and initially held in CBI custody for three days.
At the time of his arrest, Kejriwal was already in judicial custody due to a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Senior Advocate Vikram Chaudhary, representing Kejriwal, highlighted that the investigation had been ongoing since 2022 and sought the court’s direction for the CBI to present all the material on record.
The CBI, which has filed four charge sheets in the case against 17 accused, including Manish Sisodia and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha, claims that out of ₹100 crore received by AAP as kickbacks, ₹44.45 crore was transferred to Goa for election campaigns via ‘hawala channels’ between June 2021 and January 2022. Kejriwal has not been named in any of the indictments yet.
