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CBI conducts searches at premises of former TMC MP Mahua Moitra: Officials

New Delhi, Mar 23 (PTI) The CBI on Saturday conducted searches on the premises of former TMC MP Mahua Moitra in multiple locations, including Kolkata, in connection with the alleged cash-for-query case, officials said. Teams of the central probe agency reached Moitra’s residence in Kolkata and other cities early on Saturday, informed about the search proceedings and started the operation, they said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR against the former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP on Thursday on the directives of the Lokpal, which has instructed the agency to file a report within six months, they said.

PIL in Delhi HC seeks removal of Arvind Kejriwal from CM post

Delhi CM Kejriwal arrested by ED_1

New Delhi [India], March 22 (ANI): A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi High Court on Friday, seeking the removal of Arvind Kejriwal from the Delhi Chief Minister’s post after his arrest in an alleged money laundering case in connection with the excise policy. The plea stated that Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday in the money laundering case related to the alleged liquor policy scam. “Prior to the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate, the High Court had also refused to pass orders granting interim protection from the coercive action

India opposition members detained after arrest of Delhi leader Kejriwal

NEW DELHI, March 22 (Reuters) – Dozens of members of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were detained by police in New Delhi on Friday as they gathered in protest against the arrest of their leader for graft, weeks before India holds general elections. India’s financial crime agency arrested Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of the national capital territory of Delhi on Thursday in connection with graft allegations relating to the city’s liquor policy. Kejriwal’s arrest, less than a month before India begins voting on April 19, is a setback for AAP and the larger opposition alliance of which he

Atishi, Saurabh Bhardwaj detained amid AAP protests arrest of Kejriwal

New Delhi [India], March 22 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including Delhi Ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Atishi, were detained by the Delhi police during the party protest against the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday. “We will state before the Supreme Court that Arvind Kejriwal should be allowed to meet his lawyer and family and also allowed to carry out his official work. Kejriwal’s family has been put under house arrest,” Saurabh Bharadwaj said. The AAP held a protest at the ITO in the national capital against CM Kejriwal’s arrest by ED in the excise policy case. In

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