Judicial custody of Arvind Kejriwal and K Kavitha is extended by a Delhi court until May 7.
In relation to the money laundering case connected to the now-canceled Delhi excise policy, a Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha, and Aam Aadmi Party’s purported fund manager for the Goa elections, Chanpreet Singh, until May 7.
Kavitha’s judicial custody was also extended by the Rouse Avenue court until May 7 in the CBI case pertaining to the policy that was later discontinued. The court was presented with all three defendants via virtual conference. The Aam Aadmi Party convenor’s request to be granted a daily 15-minute medical consultation with his doctor in front of his wife Sunita Kejriwal was denied by the court a day earlier.
An endocrinologist and a diabetologist make up the medical board that the director of AIIMS has established, and the Delhi court ordered that the appropriate medical care be given. In the event that special consultation is needed, the Tihar jail officials are to contact this board. On Monday night, Kejriwal’s blood sugar increased, prompting the Tihar jail officials to give him a “low dose” of insulin. The Hanuman Jayanti news was greeted by AAP, which claimed that the god’s blessings were behind the development. One officer at Tihar said that, at the recommendation of the doctors at AIIMS, Kejriwal received two units of low-dose insulin on Monday night.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) detained Kejriwal on March 21 after the Delhi High Court denied him protection from the agency’s use of coercion. In all the ED and CBI cases, Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, is being held in judicial custody. The Telangana MLC was detained by the CBI from Tihar Jail, where she had been taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case resulting from the purported scam. However, the Aam Aadmi Party’s money manager for the 2022 Goa assembly elections, Chanpreet Singh, was detained by the ED for allegedly managing funds obtained through bribes in the Delhi excise scheme.
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