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An Indian court renewed detention on Monday for key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal until April 15 in a graft case, his lawyers said, less than three weeks before voting begins in general elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a move that sparked protests last month, India\u2019s financial crime-fighting agency arrested<\/a> Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, over graft accusations related to the city\u2019s liquor policy and remanded<\/a> him to custody until April 1.<\/p>\n Opposition parties say the arrest, along with government action against other opposition groups and their leaders, shows the government is denying<\/a> them a level playing field in the elections, charges it denies.<\/p>\n Kejriwal\u2019s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) says he has been falsely arrested in a fabricated case, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) denies political interference.<\/p>\n Lawyers for the agency, the Enforcement Directorate, said on Monday that Kejriwal had been non-cooperative and gave evasive replies, asking the court to hold him in custody for 15 days longer, the website Live Law<\/em> said.<\/p>\n \u201cThese people have only one aim, they want to put him in prison during the elections,\u201d Kejriwal\u2019s wife, Sunita, told reporters, referring to Modi\u2019s government. \u201cThe people will give a response to this dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the court\u2019s decision, based on concrete evidence, raised moral and constitutional questions.<\/p>\n The arrest of the high-profile leader set off protests in the capital and the northern state of Punjab, ruled by his party.<\/p>\n The court\u2019s decision comes a day after a New Delhi rally<\/a> by the INDIA bloc, an alliance of 27 opposition parties including the AAP, to protest Kejriwal\u2019s arrest, where they accused Modi of seeking to rig the elections.<\/p>\n Regional groups are among the opposition parties also facing action by federal agencies, which they have called politically motivated.<\/p>\n