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A Delhi lower court this Wednesday sent the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and the former Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody after he declined to furnish a bail bond in a criminal defamation complaint filed against him by the former Bharatiya Janata Party chief, Nitin Gadkari.
Several AAP workers including the senior party leader Yogendra Yadav clashed with the police outside Tihar Jail, where Kejriwal was sent, which were thus detained by the police. Earlier at the court the Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha ordered that Kejriwal had repeatedly refused to furnish a personal bail bond of Rs 10,000 and a surety of like amount and thus has to be taken into custody. “In these circumstances as the accused has refused to furnish bail bond or even personal bond without surety, this court is constrained to take the accused into custody. Let the accused be sent to judicial custody and be produced before the court on May 23,” said the Magistrate.
Kejriwal was called to court by the court in connection with the defamation complaint in which Gadkari had alleged that he was defamed by the AAP leader, who had included his name in the party’s list of “India’s most corrupt”. “This is my principle that when I have not done anything wrong, I will not seek bail. I am ready to go to jail,” said Kejriwal stating that he was not looking for any exceptional treatment and was ready to follow the procedure told by the court.
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