Police stand outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence
New Delhi:
Arvind Kejriwal became the first sitting chief minister to be arrested as the Enforcement Directorate took him into custody on Thursday. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief is the third senior leader of the party to be arrested in connection with the Delhi liquor policy scam, casting doubt on the future of the party which insists he will Continue to lead the government. In jail.
Kejriwal was detained hours after the Delhi High Court refused to provide protection from arrest to him in the liquor policy case. He skipped nine subpoenas issued by the school board, the last of which required him to appear for questioning on Thursday.
When the same agency arrested then Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on January 31 in connection with a money laundering case related to an alleged Rs 600-crore land scam, the JMM leader refused to sign arrest memorandum until he submits his resignation to the Department of Justice. Governor.
When Soren was taken away after being questioned for over six hours at his Ranchi residence, he insisted on stopping at Raj Bhavan, where he submitted his resignation to Governor CP Radhakrishnan. This ensured that he was a former chief minister before he was actually arrested, even if only marginally.
Some other former chief ministers of the country who have been jailed include RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, late J Jayalalithaa of AIADMK, TDP’s Chandrababu Naidu and Om Prakash Chautala of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
