{"id":77919,"date":"2024-04-01T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/delhi-chief-minister-kejriwal-sent-to-jail-until-april-15-in-graft-case-media-reports-say-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T13:37:08","slug":"delhi-chief-minister-kejriwal-sent-to-jail-until-april-15-in-graft-case-media-reports-say-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/delhi-chief-minister-kejriwal-sent-to-jail-until-april-15-in-graft-case-media-reports-say-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal sent to jail until April 15 in graft case, media reports say | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNEW DELHI:
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An Indian court sent Delhi chief minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal to jail until April 15 in a liquor graft case on Monday, local media reported, less than three weeks before the country begins voting in national elections.<\/p>\n

India’s financial crime-fighting agency had arrested Kejriwal in connection with corruption allegations related to the city’s liquor policy and he had been remanded to the agency’s custody until April 1.<\/p>\n

Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) says he has been “falsely arrested” in a “fabricated” case, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and his Bharatiya Janata Party deny political interference.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the agency said on Monday that Kejriwal had been “non-cooperative” and was “giving evasive replies” and asked the court to remand him to judicial custody for 15 days, news website Live Law reported.<\/p>\n

Kejriwal blamed Modi for his arrest.<\/p>\n

“What the prime minister is doing is not good for the country,” he told reporters on his way to court.<\/p>\n

All the senior leaders of AAP were already imprisoned in the same graft case before Kejriwal’s arrest.<\/p>\n

The action against the\u00a0high-profile leader\u00a0sparked protests in the capital and the northern state of Punjab, which is also governed by his party, last week.<\/p>\n

The court’s decision comes a day after the INDIA bloc, an alliance of 27 opposition parties including AAP,\u00a0came together\u00a0at a rally in New Delhi to protest against Kejriwal’s arrest and accused Modi of seeking to rig the elections.<\/p>\n

Besides AAP, several other opposition parties, including regional groups, are also\u00a0facing action\u00a0from federal agencies, which they say is “politically motivated”.<\/p>\n

The country’s main opposition Congress party says it has been hit with large income tax demands which it says is an effort to “cripple it financially” before the elections.<\/p>\n

Modi and the BJP have denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

Kejriwal’s arrest has also drawn international attention, with the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and\u00a0Germany\u00a0urging a “fair” and “impartial” trial, causing\u00a0New Delhi to strongly object\u00a0by asking them to stay away from its “internal” affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI: An Indian court sent Delhi chief minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal to jail until April 15 in a liquor graft case on Monday, local media reported, less than three weeks before the country begins voting in national elections. India’s financial crime-fighting agency had arrested Kejriwal in connection with corruption allegations related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/Capture1711961528-0\/Capture1711961528-0.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t