By Amit Bhardwaj, Pankaj Jain: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was on Sunday questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the liquor policy case, said that he answered all the questions put up by the central agency while maintaining that the entire case was farzi (fabricated).
Addressing the press after his over 9 hour questioning at the CBI headquarters in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal said he was asked 56 questions by the probe agency and he answered all. “CBI questioning was conducted for 9.5 hours. I answered all the questions. The entire alleged liquor scam is false and bad politics. AAP is ‘kattar imaandaar party‘. They want to finish AAP but the country’s people are with us,” Kejriwal said.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo also said that the CBI gave him “no indications” that they wanted to call him again.
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Ahead of Arvind Kejriwal’s questioning on Sunday, AAP leaders and workers held protests in many areas of the national capital. Several top leaders, including Raghav Chadha and Atishi, were detained by the police.
The leaders were released from Najafgarh police station after Arvind Kejriwal left the CBI office.
Arvind Kejriwal was issued summons by the CBI on Friday seeking his appearance as a witness before the investigation team to answer their queries on the inputs generated during the probe in which his former deputy Manish Sisodia was also arrested on February 26.
After his arrest, Manish Sisodia quit as deputy chief minister of Delhi. Sisodia was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate last month and remains in judicial custody with his bail plea rejected by the special court on March 31.
While dismissing the bail plea, a Delhi court said Sisodia played the “most important and vital role in the criminal conspiracy” and had been “deeply involved” in formulating and implementing the said policy to ensure the achievement of the objectives of the said conspiracy. The court termed Sisodia “prima facie” as “the architect” of the criminal conspiracy.
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