Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yogendra Yadav was granted bail by a city court on Thursday, a day after he was arrested for violating prohibitory orders imposed around Tihar Jail protesting Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest. Other party leaders Manish Sisodia and Jarnail Singh were also granted bail on personal bond. After that Sisodia rushed to Pilkhuwa in Uttar Pradesh where his father had passed away.
Meanwhile, party convener Kejriwal spent night in Tihar. His wife Sunita along with party leader Ashutosh and Sanjay Singh met him in the prison. Earlier, Kejriwal slept well through the night and woke up early, went for a morning walk and returned to his cell where he was served breakfast, comprising the regulation tea and bread, sources at the Tihar Jail said, adding he also read around three to four newspapers in his cell.
Around 10 am, the AAP chief met his party colleagues Sanjay Singh and Ashutosh for about 30 minutes and also met his wife Sunita, who had brought clothes and medicines for him. “He also interacted with some guards and other jail staff. He told them he was fighting graft, which is why he had been incarcerated,” a prison official said.
Kejriwal was arrested on Wednesday and sent to Tihar Jail till May 23 by a local court after he refused to furnish bail bond of `10,000 in a criminal defamation complaint filed against him by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari. On Wednesday night, the AAP leader was served prison food of chapatis, 250 gm vegetable and 90 gm dal. He has been kept alone in order to ensure that he does not come into contact with other inmates due to security reasons. On Wednesday night, 59 protesters, including Yadav, Manish Sisodia and Rakhi Birla, were held by the police for violating prohibitory orders. later, Birla was allowed to walk free after midnight while Sisodia was released on furnishing the bail bond.