Jailed Modi rival accused of deliberately spiking his blood sugar level to get out of prison [Video]

Jailed Indian opposition leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been accused by investigative authorities of deliberately spiking his blood sugar levels in attempts to secure bail.

Mr Kejriwal was arrested on 21 March in New Delhi over charges of accepting bribes in a now-scrapped liquor policy. His political outfit – Aam Aadmi party (common man’s party) has denied the charges and called them political vendetta from the Narendra Modi administration ahead of the federal elections.

Enforcement Directorate (ED), the investigative agency governed by the Modi administration, on Thursday told a local court that the Delhi leader was eating mangoes, sweets and drinking tea with added sugar in jail to deliberately raise his blood sugar in a bid to create grounds for his bail.

He is attempting to “create a medical emergency to obtain sympathetic treatment from the …