CBI gets 3-day custody of Kejriwal in excise policy case

A Delhi court on 26th of June sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to the custody of the CBI for three days in the case related to alleged excise scam. The agency had sought Kejriwal's custody for five days.

Judge Amitabh Rawat of the Delhi Rouse Avenue Court passed the order after hearing both the CBI and Kejriwal at length, reports the Bar and Bench outlet.

The Aam Aadmi Party national convener is lodged in prison in an excise policy-linked money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Department (ED).

In the application seeking Kejriwal's custody, the CBI told the court that he was required to be quizzed to unearth the larger conspiracy in the matter, reports PTI news agency.

It also said that the Delhi chief minister was required to be confronted with evidence and other people accused in the case.

Federal agencies had earlier claimed that a so-called "south lobby" dictated the formulation of the now-scrapped excise policy and that the chief minister was involved in all this.