Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday (March 28) termed his arrest as a “political conspiracy” and asserted that the folks of Delhi will give a befitting reply to the BJP over the matter. His remarks got here whereas he was being delivered to the Rouse Avene Courtroom within the nationwide capital after the tip of his ED remand within the excise coverage case. 

“My arrest is a political conspiracy. Individuals will give befitting reply,” he stated whereas being taken to the courtroom.

The courtroom had despatched his to six-day remand earlier after his arrest on March 21. The Chief Minister was produced earlier than the courtroom the place the ED is searching for one other seven days remand.

It ought to be talked about right here that the ED had arrested Kejriwal on March 21 hours after the excessive courtroom refused to grant him safety from coercive motion by the anti-money laundering probe company. The case pertains to the alleged corruption and cash laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22 which was later scrapped.

The case originated from a report offered by Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar to Lieutenant Governor (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena in July 2022, highlighting purported procedural deficiencies within the growth of the coverage. The report stated “arbitrary and unilateral choices” taken by AAP chief Manish Sisodia in his capability as Excise Minister had resulted in “monetary losses to the exchequer” estimated at greater than Rs 580 crore.