BREAKING: Delhi Court Denies Interim Bail to Arvind Kejriwal in Excise Policy Case

New Delhi: The Delhi court on Wednesday denied interim bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Excise Policy case. The Rouse avenue court extended the judicial custody of the AAP leader till June 19. Arvind Kejriwal was produced virtually before the court today. 

Arvind Kejriwal was sent to to judicial custody till June 5, noting that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had recently moved an application seeking Kejriwal's custody. The application was pending before the court as the AAP chief was released from prison on May 10 on an interim bail.

Kejriwal surrendered on June 2, the application was taken up by the Duty Judge of the Rouse Avenue Court that decided to send Kejriwal to judicial custody till Wednesday.

Moments before his surrender and subsequent return to Tihar on Sunday, the Delhi CM said he was going back to jail not because he was involved in corruption but for the reason that he had raised voice against "dictatorship".

Kejriwal was granted an interim bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, to campaign in the Lok Sabha polls. The bail expired on June 1, the day when the seventh and last phase of the general elections was held.

Addressing his party workers and leaders at the party office before surrendering at the Tihar jail, Kejriwal said he campaigned during the Lok Sabha polls to "save" the country.

"I am going back to jail not because I was involved in corruption but because I raised voice against dictatorship," news agency PTI quoted him as saying.