NEW DELHI: Amid growing claims by opposition parties that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) will be scrapped immediately if they come to office, Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday declared that the process of giving citizenship under the law will begin this month, while also defending the “timing” of Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by saying…
NEW DELHI: Delhi govt has “come to a standstill” due to absence of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi high court said on Monday, underlining that “national and public interest” demands a CM can’t be absent for a long stretch of time or for an uncertain period.In a strongly-worded order flagging the failure of Delhi govt…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s wife Sunita Kejriwal was denied permission to meet her husband on April 29 by the Tihar Jail authorities, Aam Admi Party (AAP) said on Sunday.According to sources from Tihar jail, permission had been granted to Delhi minister Atishi, who had applied last week to meet Kejriwal on April…
NEW DELHI: Accusing the Centre of “misusing” Enforcement Directorate to “crush” its political opponents ahead of the parliamentary elections, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has told Supreme Court that his arrest was illegal, arbitrary and an unprecedented assault on the tenets of democracy based on free and fair elections and federalism.Countering the allegations of the agency…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday filed his response on the Enforcement Directorate‘s affidavit in the Supreme Court and said that the mode, manner and timing of his arrest speaks volumes about the arbitrariness of the central agency.In his rejoinder affidavit, Kejriwal suggested that a political conspiracy was hatched behind his arrest…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday wrote two separate letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi LG VK Saxena, alleging that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, is being monitored 24/7 by CCTV cameras controlled by the PMO and LG. In his letter, Singh…
NEW DELHI: Delhi cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj had a 30-minute meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Tihar Jail on Wednesday, assuring the public that there is no need to worry about him. Bharadwaj mentioned that he met Kejriwal in the ‘mulakat jangla‘ and also spoke with him over the phone.“I had a half-an-hour meeting…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday denied chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s request for consultation with a private doctor through video conferencing, agreeing with the Tihar Jail authorities that he cannot be treated differently from other inmates and that the laws and jail manual must apply equally to all. “The request for private treatment can…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday rejected a PIL seeking direction to grant ‘extraordinary interim bail‘ to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in all the criminal cases.A division bench of acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, upon dismissal of the PIL fined the petitioner with Rs 75,000.The bench headed…
NEW DELHI: In a press conference on Monday, Delhi Cabinet minister Atishi accused the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of misleading the court regarding Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s insulin requirements. Kejriwal, who has diabetes, had filed a fresh plea on Friday requesting daily 15-minute consultations with his physician and insulin administration while in jail.Atishi said, “The ED…
