New Delhi:

With the Enforcement Directorate taking him into custody on Thursday, Arvind Kejriwal has grow to be the primary serving Chief Minister to be arrested. The Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) chief is the third senior chief from the get together to be arrested in reference to the Delhi liquor coverage rip-off, leaving query marks about the way forward for his get together, which has insisted that he’ll proceed to run the federal government from behind bars.

Mr Kejriwal was taken into custody hours after the Delhi Excessive Court docket refused to grant him safety from arrest within the liquor coverage case. He has skipped 9 summons issued by the ED, the final of which required his presence for questioning on Thursday.

When the identical company had arrested then Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in reference to the cash laundering case linked to an alleged Rs 600-crore land rip-off on January 31, the JMM chief had refused to signal the arrest memo till he tendered his resignation to the Governor.

When he was being taken away after being questioned for over six hours at his residence in Ranchi, Mr Soren had insisted on stopping on the Raj Bhavan, the place he handed his resignation to Governor CP Radhakrishnan. This ensured that he was a former chief minister, even when by a whisker, earlier than his precise arrest.

A few of the different former chief ministers within the nation who’ve been hung out behind bars embrace RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, late J Jayalalithaa of the AIADMK, Chandrababu Naidu of the TDP and Om Prakash Chautala of the Indian Nationwide Lok Dal.