Delhi chief minister sent to jail 

Delhi Chief Minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to jail until April 15 in a liquor graft case.

An Indian court sent passed the order on Monday, less than three weeks before the country begins voting in national elections.

Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) says he has been ‘falsely arrested’ in a ‘fabricated’ case, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and his Bharatiya Janata Party deny political interference.

Lawyers for the agency said on Monday that Kejriwal had been ‘non-cooperative’ and was ‘giving evasive replies’ and asked the court to remand him to judicial custody for 15 days. Kejriwal blamed Modi for his arrest.

All the senior leaders of AAP were already imprisoned in the same graft case before Kejriwal's arrest.

The action against the high-profile leader sparked protests in the capital and the northern state of Punjab, which is also governed by his party, last week.

The court's decision comes a day after the INDIA bloc, an alliance of 27 opposition parties including AAP, came together at a rally in New Delhi to protest against Kejriwal's arrest and accused Modi of seeking to rig the elections.