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Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal arrested over corruption claims

Arvind Kejriwal founded the AAP in 2011 [File: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters]

Delhi Chief Minister and prominent opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by India’s financial crime agency in connection with corruption allegations related to the city’s liquor policy, his party has said.

The arrest of Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday 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”.

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