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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested in liquor graft case. Local and international media reported.
According to Reuters, India's financial crime agency arrested Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday (21 March) in connection with graft allegations relating to the city's liquor policy.
This is seen as a setback for the opposition ahead of elections. The arrest means the main leaders of the decade-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are in jail, following the arrests last year of two of Kejriwal's deputies in the same case - which the party has called "dirty politics".
Kejriwal, 55, rose to power as an anti-corruption crusader and founded the AAP, Hindi for "common man's party", in 2011.
As news of Kejriwals' arrest broke, scores of supporters protested outside his heavily guarded residence and clashed with security forces
Atishi, Delhi's finance minister, said on social media that the AAP was seeking to quash the latest arrest. "We have asked for an urgent hearing by the Supreme Court.
