A courtroom has prolonged Indian opposition chief Arvind Kejriwal’s custody till Monday in a corruption case.

The Delhi chief minister has denied allegations that he acquired kickbacks in a now-scrapped alcohol gross sales coverage.

The ruling comes a day after the US reiterated that it inspired a “fair” authorized course of within the case.

Mr Kejriwal was arrested final week amid criticism from opposition events that the federal government was stifling them forward of common elections in April and May.

Mr Kejriwal advised the courtroom that the case in opposition to him was a “political conspiracy” and that there was no concrete proof to again the claims in opposition to him.

But SV Raju, representing the Enforcement Directorate (ED), India’s monetary crimes unit, stated that Mr Kejriwal had been “evasive in his replies”.

After the listening to, Mr Kejriwal’s lawyer Ramesh Gupta advised reporters that the chief minister had “no objection to being in custody” however that he “opposed the grounds on which his remand is being sought”.

Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of political vendetta. The BJP denies the allegation, saying it’s appearing in opposition to corruption.

Mr Kejriwal is the third AAP chief to be arrested over the alleged corruption case. An alliance of greater than 20 opposition events have deliberate a protest rally in Delhi on Sunday in opposition to his arrest.

The BJP has alleged that the now-scrapped alcohol coverage – which ended the federal government’s monopoly on liquor gross sales – gave undue benefits to personal retailers. The ED has accused AAP leaders of receiving kickbacks for use in state elections. The social gathering denies the allegation.

On Wednesday, US State Department spokesperson, Mathew Miller, reiterated that the US was intently following Mr Kejriwal’s arrest and actions taken in opposition to opposition events in India.

“We encourage fair, transparent, timely legal processes [in both cases]. We don’t think anyone should object to that,” Mr Miller stated.

He had made related remarks on Tuesday, which prompted India to summon a senior US diplomat in Delhi to register its protest.

“The recent remarks are unwarranted. In India, legal processes are driven by the rule of law. Anyone who has similar ethos, specially fellow democracies, should have no difficulty in appreciating this fact,” a spokesperson from India’s Ministry of External Affairs stated on Thursday.

The US is the second nation to touch upon Mr Kejriwal’s arrest. Last week, the German overseas ministry stated it hoped that Mr Kejriwal would get a “fair and impartial trial as India is a democratic nation”.

India reacted strongly to those remarks as properly and summoned a German diplomat to lift its objections.

Indian opposition leaders have accused the BJP of utilizing investigative companies to cripple their events and stifle dissent earlier than the elections.

Hours earlier than Mr Kejriwal’s arrest on 21 March, India’s principal opposition Congress social gathering additionally held a press convention saying that its bank accounts had been frozen by the tax division forward of the final elections.

In January, the ED arrested prime opposition chief Hemant Soren in a corruption case, hours after he resigned from the place of the chief minister of Jharkhand state. Mr Soren and his social gathering denied any wrongdoing and accused the BJP of stifling opposition. The BJP has rejected his declare.

Amnesty International has additionally stated that the crackdown on peaceable dissent and opposition in India has “now reached a crisis point”.