<p>Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was sent to the Tihar Jail after a Delhi court Wednesday sent him to two-day judicial custody following his refusal to furnish a personal bail bond in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Kejriwal, who was kept for more than half-an-hour inside a lockup in Patiala House court complex after the court ordered him to be taken into judicial custody, was taken to Tihar in a police van.<br /><br />He reached Tihar around 6.30 p.m.<br /><br />After his medical examination, he was shifted to ward number 14 of Tihar's jail number 4.<br />"Kejriwal has been kept in a 16X10-foot separate cell," said Tihar's spokesperson Sunil Gupta.<br /><br />"He has been provided a blanket, two bedsheets and a mat to sleep on a floor of the jail while a bedding taken by his family for him has also been allowed," said Gupta.<br /><br />Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha sent Kejriwal to judicial custody and fixed Friday as the next date of hearing when the Aam Aadmi Party leader refused to furnish a bail bond of Rs.10,000.<br /><br />Kejriwal was summoned by the court for describing former Bharatiya Janata Party president as a "corrupt" person.<br /><br />Gadkari's complaint said that Jan 31, when he was Delhi's chief minister, Kejriwal released a list of "India's most corrupt" people and it included his name.<br /><br />Gadkari told the court that "false, baseless, scandalous, defamatory statements" by Kejriwal against him had lowered his dignity.<br /></p>
<p>Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was sent to the Tihar Jail after a Delhi court Wednesday sent him to two-day judicial custody following his refusal to furnish a personal bail bond in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Kejriwal, who was kept for more than half-an-hour inside a lockup in Patiala House court complex after the court ordered him to be taken into judicial custody, was taken to Tihar in a police van.<br /><br />He reached Tihar around 6.30 p.m.<br /><br />After his medical examination, he was shifted to ward number 14 of Tihar's jail number 4.<br />"Kejriwal has been kept in a 16X10-foot separate cell," said Tihar's spokesperson Sunil Gupta.<br /><br />"He has been provided a blanket, two bedsheets and a mat to sleep on a floor of the jail while a bedding taken by his family for him has also been allowed," said Gupta.<br /><br />Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha sent Kejriwal to judicial custody and fixed Friday as the next date of hearing when the Aam Aadmi Party leader refused to furnish a bail bond of Rs.10,000.<br /><br />Kejriwal was summoned by the court for describing former Bharatiya Janata Party president as a "corrupt" person.<br /><br />Gadkari's complaint said that Jan 31, when he was Delhi's chief minister, Kejriwal released a list of "India's most corrupt" people and it included his name.<br /><br />Gadkari told the court that "false, baseless, scandalous, defamatory statements" by Kejriwal against him had lowered his dignity.<br /></p>