{"id":66727,"date":"2024-09-13T22:09:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/13\/indian-opposition-leader-arvind-kejriwal-released-on-bail"},"modified":"2024-09-13T22:09:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:09:33","slug":"indian-opposition-leader-arvind-kejriwal-released-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66727","title":{"rendered":"Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal released on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister had been in jail since being arrested in March in corruption case he says is politically motivated<\/p>\n<p>One of India\u2019s most prominent opposition leaders has been granted bail after spending almost six months in jail for a corruption case he alleged was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, India\u2019s supreme court ruled that, Arvind Kejriwal, who is the chief minister of Delhi, should be immediately released from jail in Delhi, where he has been held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/22\/delhi-chief-minister-to-be-held-for-six-days-after-arrest-on-corruption-charges\">since his arrest in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/13\/indian-opposition-leader-arvind-kejriwal-released-on-bail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister had been in jail since being arrested in March in corruption case he says is politically motivatedOne of India\u2019s most prominent opposition leaders has been granted bail after spending almost six months in jail for a corruption case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66727\/revisions\/66728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}