Arvind Kejriwal Arrest Live: Ministers Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj detained at ITO

Adequate safety preparations have been made close to Rouse Avenue courtroom for CM Arvind Kejriwal’s manufacturing. Traffic diversions have been put in place close to the courtroom and persons are not allowed to protest at DDU Marg. It i’s not a chosen protest website and since many essential workplaces and very important installations are across the space, Section 144 has been imposed: Harsh Vardhan, DCP (Central)

Kejriwal to be produced in PMLA courtroom at round 2:30 pm.

Minister Atishi, who holds most variety of portfolios within the Delhi authorities, additionally detained after scuffle with police.

Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, detained at ITO, says, “We will state earlier than the Supreme Court that Arvind Kejriwal must be allowed to fulfill his lawyer and household and in addition allowed to hold out his official work. Kejriwal’s household has been put beneath home arrest.

Protesting AAP staff, together with ministers Atishi and Surabh Bharadwaj, detained by Delhi Police ITO, the place that they had gathered to protest Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest.

Justice Sanjiv Khanna agrees to listen to the matter right now; the particular bench, nevertheless, shall be reconstituted.

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud asks Kejriwal’s lawyer, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, to say the case earlier than the particular bench that’s listening to the co-accused Kavitha’s case.

However, the 3-judge bench, comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh and Bela M Trivedi, has risen after refusing Kavitha’s bail plea difficult her arrest

AAP staff maintain protest outdoors occasion workplace towards the arrest their nationwide convenor, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, by the ED within the excise coverage case. Heavy safety deployed.

Delhi meeting cancelled sitting scheduled for right now after arrest of Arvind Kejriwal. The meeting will now meet at 11 am on March 27.

Delhi Police shut DDU Marg for site visitors, resulting in adjoining roads heavy quantity of site visitors. DDU Marg is the place headquarters of each AAP and BJP are primarily based.

What has occurred is violative of the spirit of democracy. The courtroom has each proper to take imminent motion towards something that has a fabric impact on the elections. This is basically violative of the political rights of each Indian citizen: Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP

I got here right here to fulfill his household however they’ve been put beneath home arrest. Under which regulation am I being stopped from assembly?: Gopal Rai, Delhi minister

For the primary time, a sitting CM has been arrested. As CM, he will get Z+ safety cowl. Now he’s the custody of the central ED company. We are involved for his security and safety: Atishi, AAP MLA

Delhi Police detains AAP MLA Rakhi Birla for staging protest outdoors Kejriwal’s residence, in Civil Lines space. Section 144, which prohibits giant gatherings, is already in drive within the space.

On Delhi Police’s recommendation, ITO metro station (which is close to the AAP’s headquarters) will stay closed until 6 pm, informs Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

A group of docs reaches ED headquarters within the nationwide capital to conduct medical examination of Arvind Kejriwal. Later within the day, he shall be produced in a PMLA courtroom.

While the occasion and the bigger I.N.D.I.A bloc will attempt to undertaking the chief minister as a sufferer of the ruling BJP’s ‘political vindictiveness,’ it must be seen if the arrest generates sympathy for the AAP within the Lok Sabha polls.

To make sure, Delhi, like many different states, has voted in another way in state and Lok Sabha polls. While the AAP gained 67 and 62 seats (out of complete 70) in 2015 and 2020 meeting elections respectively, the BJP gained all seven parliamentary segments in each the 2014 and 2019 basic elections.

Security has been beefed up outdoors AAP’s headquarters in Delhi, forward of the demonstration referred to as by the occasion at 10 am.

While a number of individuals, each from and never from the AAP, are already in jail within the case, Kejriwal’s arrest is definitely the most important within the case. The AAP chief’s arrest took place simply days after that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha.

Senior AAP members Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh too are amongst these arrested, in February and October 2023, respectively.

Aisi Taisi Democracy. For all of the discuss of 400+ seats, the ruling dispensation is displaying a outstanding diploma of nervousness. Having a sitting opposition CM arrested by a pliable central company inside days of the final elections being introduced is a blot on democracy. JKNC stands with Arvind Kejriwal and AAP: Omar Abdullah, vp, J&Ok National Conference

From calling PM Modi a ‘dictator’ to accusing him of attempting to ‘finish off’ democracy within the nation, leaders of the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc – the AAP is amongst over two dozen constituents of the alliance – prolonged their full help to their ally, who was arrested on the eve of Lok Sabha elections, scheduled to begin on April 19.

While the occasion has formally maintained that Kejriwal proceed to run the federal government from Tihar Jail, this is able to result in constitutional disaster. Already, former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, the occasion’s quantity 2 behind the Delhi CM, has been in Tihar since February 2023 in the identical case.

Kalkaji MLA Atishi, who holds the utmost variety of portfolios within the Delhi authorities, together with those vacated by Sisodia, due to this fact, seems most certainly to be the subsequent chief minister.

All it is a systematic plan. This (the arrest) is shameful and deadly for democracy as a result of an try is being made to suppress the voice of a pacesetter who’s talking towards the BJP. Why are you (BJP) focusing on solely the INDIA alliance? We will combat: Clyde Crasto, spokesperson, NCP (SCP)

He & Anna Hazare gang had been answerable for making most irresponsible, baseless & wild allegations towards Congress together with Sheila Dikshit ji saying he had ‘trunk loads’ of proof towards her. No one has seen the ‘trunk’ thus far. Karma catches up: Sharmistha Mukherjee

As per experiences, Rahul Gandhi spoke to the Delhi CM’s household and warranted Congress’ help. The Wayanad MP is prone to meet the AAP chief’s kin on Friday and supply authorized assist.

Singed by the ED arresting its nationwide convenor, the occasion will maintain nationwide arrests on Friday outdoors the BJP’s workplaces. In the nationwide capital, AAP staff have been requested to assemble outdoors its nationwide headquarters at ITO at 10 am.