A judge of the Rouse Avenue court in the capital on March 22 remanded Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) till March 28 in the alleged excise policy scam case.
Kejriwal will now be produced in the court again on March 28 at 2 pm, wherein it will take a call on whether Kejriwal should continue to remain in custody.
On March 22, the agency produced Kejriwal before the court and sought his custody in the case. “We have given an application for 10 days remand,” the ED told the court after the AAP chief was produced before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja around 2 pm amid tight security.
The Delhi CM was produced in the court after withdrawing his petition in the Supreme Court challenging his arrest by ED.
During the hearing, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju, who appeared for ED contended that Kejriwal was the key conspirator in the alleged irregularities in the scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22. Raju said, “He was directly involved in the formulation of the policy and was involved in the handling of proceeds of crime.”
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