Severe diabetic Kejriwal has lost 4.5 kgs since arrest, if something happens to him God will not forgive BJP: AAP's Atishi

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has lost around 4.5 kilograms of weight since his arrest in the Delhi Excise Policy case, said minister Atishi on Wednesday.

Kejriwal suffers from severe diabetes and even then he managed to work 24 hours for the country.

"Arvind Kejriwal ji is a severe diabetic. Despite health issues, he remained engaged 24 hours a day in the service of the country. Since his arrest, Kejriwal's weight has decreased by 4.5 kg. This is very worrying. The BJP is putting his health at risk by putting him in jail," she alleged in a post on X in Hindi.


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The Delhi chief minister has been allowed to have home-cooked food in Tihar jail. On Tuesday morning, Kejriwal's sugar level was low. He was under the watch of Tihar jail doctors as his sugar level kept fluctuating, news agency PTI quoted officials as saying.


Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 in an ongoing money laundering probe in the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy case. He is currently in judicial custody till April 15.

The ED informed the Delhi High Court that Kejriwal was was the "kingpin" and the "key conspirator" of the "excise scam" and there were "reasons to believe" on the basis of material in its possession that he was guilty of the offence of money laundering.

"Sh Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi, is the kingpin and key conspirator of the Delhi Excise Scam in collusion with Ministers of Delhi Govt, AAP leaders and other persons.. Sh Arvind Kejriwal was directly involved in the formulation of the Excise Policy 2021-22," the ED informed the court, opposing a bail plea filed by the Delhi CM.

"This policy was being drafted considering the favours to be granted to the South Group and was formed in collusion with Sh Vijay Nair, Sh Manish Sisodia and members representatives of the South Group," said the response.

The Delhi HC on March 27 refused to grant Kejriwal any interim relief in the matter, saying that the matter raised important issues that cannot be "summarily" decided without seeking the agency's stand and had asked ED to file its reply to the challenge to his arrest and the subsequent remand to the ED's custody.

Kejriwal's petition asserting that a political party cannot be brought within the ambit of money laundering law is also pending in high court.

(With agency inputs)