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Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to entertain another PIL seeking direction to remove Arvind Kejriwal from the post of Delhi Chief Minister. During the arguments, the court made an oral observation stating that the personal interest has to be subordinate to the national interest. Earlier, on March 28, the High Court had rejected a similar PIL. 

Kejriwal was arrested in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Delhi Excise Policy on March 21. He was sent to judicial custody of ED till April 15.

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"At times, personal interest has to be subordinate to national interest but that is his personal call. We are a court of law and have to go by the law. Your remedy does not lie here, it lies elsewhere. You go before the competent forum," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora said as quoted by news agency PTI. The bench said it has recently dismissed a similar PIL and thus it cannot take a different view.

Arvind Kejriwal's Daily Routine In Tihar Jail

AAP national convener who is currently in Tihar Jail after a court remanded him in ED judicial custody in the excise policy case, is spending most of his time meditating, reading books and doing yoga in his cell, PTI reported citing sources. Among the books provided to him are the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, and ‘How Prime Ministers Decide'.

Kejriwal is the first sitting chief minister to be lodged in jail. For the most part of the day, the AAP chief reads books and does yoga and meditation twice every day, according to jail sources. "He does yoga and meditates for about for about one and a half hours each every morning and evening," an official source said.

(With Agencies Inputs)