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       Arvind Kejriwal Sent To Jail



       Delhi  Chief  Minister Arvind  Kejriwal  will  spend  the  next  two
       weeks in jail in the liquor policy case after his Enforcement
       Directorate custody ends today. The probe agency did not seek
       custody of the AAP leader, after which a local court this morning
       sent him to jail till April 15.
       The court has also allowed him to meet his wife Sunita Kejriwal
       and ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj before he is shifted
       to the Tihar Jail.
       Mr  Kejriwal  was  arrested  on  March  21  in  the  alleged  liquor
       policy scam after he skipped nine central agency summons,
       and has been running his government from the ED lock-up since then.
       In Delhi's Rouse Avenue court, where Mr Kejriwal was produced this morning before the expiry of his probe
       agency custody, the ED said he had been "uncooperative" and was giving evasive answers. He did not
       reveal the passwords of his digital devices, the ED told the court.
       The central agency, which is probing money laundering charges in the alleged liquor policy scam, also said
       it may need his custody again in the future.
       The agency said Mr Kejriwal gave false evidence against other AAP members, and when confronted with
       the statements of his own party leaders, he called them confused. He also said that Vijay Nair, AAP
       communications in-charge who has turned an approver, didn't report to him but to Atishi and Mr Bhardwaj,
       according to the ED.

       8  killed  as  Israel  strikes  Iran  embassy  annex  in

       Damascus


       Israeli strikes hit an Iranian consulate annex in Syria's capital
       Monday, state media said, amid rising regional tensions due
       to the Gaza war, as a war monitor reported six people were
       killed.
       Iranian  state  media  said  a  senior  commander  with  Quds
       Force of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary  Guard Corps,
       Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, was among the
       dead.
       It was the fifth strike in eight days to hit Syria, whose President
       Bashar al-Assad is widely supported by Iran and its allies.
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