New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal continued to stay in Tihar Central Jail here on Thursday.
The AAP chief was on Wednesday sent to judicial custody in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, hours after he apologised for resigning as Delhi's chief minister in February. According to a report, the AAP will challenge the Patiala House Court order on its chief Arvind Kejriwal's arrest.
Meanwhile, Manish Sisodia, who was among the AAP protesters taken into custody last night, was reportedly freed this morning as he had to attend his father's funeral.
Prohibitory orders continue to be in place outside Tihar jail. AAP activists have planned more protests today.
Kejriwal, 45, was first sent to a lock-up in the court complex before being taken in a police van to the Tihar Central Jail, where a large number of Aam Aadmi Party workers promptly staged a noisy protest.
Police detained several AAP leaders - Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh among others - when they refused to budge from the protest site.
Another AAP leader, Yogendra Yadav was dragged from the protest site and put into a Delhi Police bus.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha ordered the two-day judicial custody after Kejriwal, accused of slandering Gadkari by calling him "corrupt", refused to furnish a bail bond of Rs 10,000.
"Let the accused be sent to judicial custody and be produced before the court May 23," she said.
In keeping with a stand he took earlier, Kejriwal told the court he would not furnish a bail bond as the case was a political one.
The sudden development came just after Kejriwal offered his first public apology for abruptly resigning as Delhi's chief minister on February 14 and sought fresh elections in the capital.
(With IANS inputs)
First Published: Thursday, May 22, 2014, 08:27
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