Claims about Arvind Kejriwal put under house arrest false and baseless: Delhi Police

"These claims are totally false and baseless. There have been no restrictions on the movement of the CM. The Delhi CM is attending his usual engagements and moving freely out of his residence," DCP North Anto Alphonse said during a press conference on Tuesday.

The Delhi Police also shared an image of Kejriwal's house in a tweet without any kind of restrictions put in place.

The police said that deployments of security outside Kejriwal's residence were usual ones. Additional reinforcements were sent only after Aam Aadmi Party workers and MLAs started assembling there in large numbers.

The clarification comes after the AAP on Tuesday claimed that its supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was put under house arrest by Delhi Police, which falls under the central government's jurisdiction.

The AAP in a tweet claimed: "BJP's Delhi Police has put Hon'ble CM Shri Arvind Kejriwal under house arrest ever since he visited farmers at Singhu Border yesterday. No one has been permitted to leave or enter his residence."

Earlier, Kejriwal had visited the Singhu border where thousands of farmers were protesting against the Centre's three new contentious farm laws.

The AAP, which had supported the nationwide strike called by the protesting farmers on Tuesday, had drawn a connection between Kejriwal's showing of solidarity with the peasants and his "house arrest."

Training his guns against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules the country and is currently facing one of the biggest protests, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain had tweeted, "The house arrest of Arvind Kejriwal means the BJP government wants to silence every single voice supporting the farmers' protest."

"The Home Minister yesterday arrested Arvind Kejriwal after he returned to home after meeting the protesting farmers at the Singhu border. Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested so that he is not able to come out of home in support of the Bharat Bandh," AAP MP Sanjay Singh, who was seen as leading the party's protest against the farm laws in Parliament, had tweeted.

The AAP government, which has been accused of enacting one of the Centre's farm laws in the union territory, had earlier turned down the Narendra Modi government's request to turn a stadium into a temporary jail for the farmers.

Thousands of farmers are protesting against the farm laws in the Delhi-Haryana border with their sole demand of the repeal of the laws, which was initially passed through an Ordinance amid the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year.