AAP’s Raghav Chadha talks to reporters whereas being taken away in a police van
New Delhi:
Several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders together with MPs Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh had been detained by the Delhi Police for protesting close to the CBI workplace in Delhi, the place Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is being questioned within the liquor coverage case.
The AAP additionally held an emergency assembly of occasion leaders this night amid issues the CBI might arrest Mr Kejriwal. His ex deputy Manish Sisodia, who additionally held the excise portfolio, was arrested in the identical case final month.
While being taken away in a police bus, Mr Chadha instructed reporters that the scenario was like being below a dictatorship.
“Delhi Police has arrested us for sitting peacefully and is taking us to some unknown place… what kind of dictatorship is this?” Mr Chadha additionally stated in a tweet later.
दिल्ली पुलिस ने हमें शांतिपूर्वक ढंग से बैठने के जुर्म में गिरफ्तार कर लिया है और किसी अनजान जगह पर लेके जा रही है… ये कैसी तानाशाही है ? pic.twitter.com/3yDvdAVOXT
— Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) April 16, 2023
The detained leaders included Delhi ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi and Kailash Gahlot, AAP spokesperson Adil Ahmad Khan, AAP normal secretary Pankaj Gupta and a few ministers within the Punjab authorities, which is run by the AAP.
At the emergency assembly, AAP’s Delhi chief Gopal Rai focus on what steps to be taken in case Mr Kejriwal is arrested. Mayor Shelly Oberoi, Deputy Mayor Aaley Mohammad Iqbal, AAP nationwide secretary Pankaj Gupta and occasion chief Jasmine Shah attended this assembly.
The CBI summoned Mr Kejriwal to its workplace close to central Delhi’s Lodhi Road to reply questions as a witness – he isn’t an accused – within the liquor coverage case.
The CBI has stated the then secretary to Mr Sisodia instructed investigators that the draft liquor coverage was given to him in March 2021 by the now-arrested chief at Mr Kejriwal’s residence.
The bureaucrat, C Arvind, has given the assertion earlier than a Justice of the Peace, making it admissible proof in courtroom. The CBI needed Mr Kejriwal’s assertion on the assembly, because it allegedly happened at his residence.
The excise coverage was cleared by the Delhi authorities after an inquiry was ordered by the then Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal. The clearance got here after it had been deferred twice. The CBI needs to seek out out why.
The Delhi authorities scrapped the brand new liquor coverage in July 2022, lower than a 12 months after it was launched, and reverted to the outdated coverage.