Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was remanded to a three-day CBI custody on Wednesday in connection with the liquor policy case. Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court, while granting Kejriwal’s custody to the probe agency, also accepted his request for some concessions during the custody period.
During the 3-day remand period, the court has allowed Delhi CM Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal to meet him for 30 minutes and his lawyer to meet him every day for 30 minutes. The court has also allowed him to carry his prescribed medicines during the remand period.
Home-cooked food is also allowed during the remand period, the court said, ANI reported.
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Kejriwal will also be allowed to retain his spectacles, belt (for which he made a special request) and keep a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, according to an India Today report.
The Delhi CM will be produced before the court by 7 pm on June 29.
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Kejriwal, who is already in Tihar Jail in connection with a money laundering case, was formally arrested by the CBI on Wednesday (June 26). He was earlier arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21 in a money laundering case in connection with the now-scrapped excise policy.
(With inputs from agencies)
