New Delhi: Delhi police on Sunday detained senior leaders of Aam Aadami Party (AAP) together with Raghav Chadha, Sanjay Singh and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann who have been protesting close to CBI workplace within the nationwide capital towards the investigation company’s summon to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The Aam Aadmi Party took to the streets in Delhi on Sunday towards the CBI for summoning Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for interrogation in reference to the excise coverage case.
Top leaders of the social gathering, together with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Delhi ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi and Kailash Gahlot, and Rajya Sabha MPs Sandeep Pathak, Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh, gathered close to the federal company’s headquarters and raised slogans towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Kejriwal’s questioning was underway.
According to new agecny PTI, addressing a press convention, AAP Delhi convener Gopal Rai claimed that round 1,500 individuals have been detained by police and a number of other MLAs and councillors “arrested” throughout the nationwide capital for staging protests towards the CBI summons to the chief minister.
“The central government is conspiring to arrest Kejriwal. Several people even took the streets and protested against the CBI across the city. Heavy security was deployed and many people who came out in support of Arvind Kejriwal were detained,” he stated.
“Around 1,500 people have been detained or arrested by police across Delhi for staging protests. Thirty-two Delhi MLAs and 70 councillors have been arrested in the city and 20 Punjab AAP MLAs have been arrested at Delhi border,” PTI quoted Rai.
“Leaders including Sanjeev Jha, Kuldeep Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Jarnail Singh, Rituraj Jha, Naresh Yadav, Gulab Singh Yadav, Somnath Bharti, Girish Soni, Amanatullah Khan and Shiv Charan Goel were arrested in Delhi,” he added.
#WATCH | Aam Aadmi Party leaders together with Raghav Chadha, Sanjay Singh and others detained by Delhi Police for protesting close to CBI workplace in Delhi.
Delhi CM and AAP nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal is presently being questioned by CBI in reference to liquor rip-off case. pic.twitter.com/MPVRczIfa8
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Meanwhile, CBI is questioning the AAP nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal within the excise coverage case. Manish Sisodia, Kejriwal’s former deputy within the Delhi authorities, was arrested final month within the case.
It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants favoured sure sellers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the AAP. The coverage was later scrapped.
Security was stepped up on the CBI headquarters with the Delhi Police setting up 4 rings of barricading to stop protests by the Aam Admi Party leaders and supporters.
As per PTI report, over 1,000 safety personnel, together with from paramilitary forces, have been deployed exterior the CBI headquarters and part 144 of the CrPC has additionally been imposed within the space to make sure no gathering of greater than 4 individuals takes place.
Security has additionally been tightened exterior the workplace of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at Rouse Avenue,reported PTI. Barricades have additionally been positioned on streets at each these locations — AAP workplace and CBI headquarters — to make sure the social gathering’s employees and supporters don’t create any hassle, a senior police official stated.
CBI officers have stated they requested Kejriwal to look on a Sunday because the places of work within the space stay closed. It had adopted the identical technique when Sisodia was known as on the company’s headquarters, the place he was grilled for eight hours earlier than being taken into custody.
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