{"id":237900,"date":"2024-03-29T00:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=237900"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:21:27","slug":"kejriwals-ed-custody-extended-till-1-apr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/kejriwals-ed-custody-extended-till-1-apr\/","title":{"rendered":"Kejriwal&#8217;s ED custody extended till 1 Apr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 28 Mar:<\/strong> A court here on Thursday extended the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till 1 April in the excise policy case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agency had sought seven-day custody of the AAP chief, but the court said that he has to be produced before the court on 1 April at 11 am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ED had produced him before Rouse Avenue court Special Judge Kaveri Baweja as his current custody was ending on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ED said in its fresh remand plea that during his custodial interrogation, his statements were recorded on five days and that he was &#8220;giving evasive replies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said that the statements of three other persons have also been recorded during the remand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Kejriwal said that the excise policy-linked money laundering case &#8220;is a political conspiracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was arrested by the ED in the case on 21 March, and subsequently he was sent to remand till 28 March by the court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is a political conspiracy. The people will give an answer,&#8221; Kejriwal told reporters as he entered the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AAP ministers Atishi, Gopal Rai and Saurabh Bharadwaj, along with the chief minister&#8217;s wife Sunita Kejriwal were inside the court. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 28 Mar: A court here on Thursday extended the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till 1 April in the excise policy case. The agency had sought seven-day custody of the AAP chief, but the court said that he has to be produced before the court on 1 April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}