Delhi CM and Kavitha to be in custody for 14 days more
Bharadwaj organises ‘Shobhayatra’ in Greater Kailash
A Delhi court on Tuesday extended till May 7 the judicial custody of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and BRS leader K. Kavitha in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam.
Special judge for CBI and ED matters Kaveri Baweja extended the custody of Mr Kejriwal and Ms Kavitha along with co-accused Chanpreet Singh, who allegedly managed the AAP’s funds in the 2022 Goa Assembly elections, after they were produced before the court through video conference on the expiry of their remand.
The judge also extended the judicial custody of Ms Kavitha, a Telangana MLC and the daughter of former Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao, till May 7 in a related corruption case being probed by the CBI.
The court, meanwhile, adjourned for Wednesday the hearing on Ms Kavitha’s bail application in the money laundering case.
New Delhi, April 23: AAP leaders took out processions carrying mace with stickers of insulin vials and visited temples while BJP leaders organised special Hanuman Chalisa recitals across Delhi on Tuesday, as the two parties invoked Lord Hanuman on the festival commemorating the birth of the deity. With Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal receiving the first dose of insulin in Tihar Jail on Monday evening since his arrest on March 21, AAP leaders said that it happened due to the blessings of Lord Hanuman.
His wife Sunita Kejriwal offered prayers at the Hanuman Temple in Connaught Place on the occasion and said she hopes to visit again soon with her husband.
The party leaders had accused the Tihar administration of denying insulin to Mr Kejriwal who suffers from diabetes and had claimed it was a “conspiracy” to kill the chief minister who was showing a spike in his sugar levels. Mr Kejriwal is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with a money launderinglinked excise policy case.
“May Hanuman Baba give wisdom and prosperi- ty to all. May Hanuman Baba take away everyone’s trouble and mine too. I will come back with sir (Arvind Kejriwal) soon,” Sunita Kejriwal said.
Delhi health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj organised a ‘Shobhayatra’ of Lord Hanuman in his Greater Kailash constituency.
“Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is an immense ‘Bhakt’ of Hanuman ji. Today Hanuman ji has once again come to alleviate the trouble of his ‘Bhakt’.
On this auspicious occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, Kejriwal received insulin.
“The jail administration was denying him insulin. This shows that whenever the devotees of Lord Hanuman are in trouble, he comes to their rescue,” the senior party leader said.
The procession featured artistes dressed as Lord Ram, Sita, Lakshman, and Hanuman. During the ‘shobhayatra’, the person posing as Lord Hanuman was seen carrying props of insulin vials while Mr Bharadwaj held a mace with stickers that had ‘insulin’ written on them.