AAP leader Yogendra Yadav gets bail

The senior AAP leader,who was arrested for violating prohibitory orders imposed around Tihar Jail premises here while protesting against AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal's arrest, was released on bail following furnishing a personal bond of Rs 5,000.

"Just to clarify: I have been released on jati muchalka or personal bond, not on Jamanat or surety," Yadav tweeted.

Amid protests Kejriwal was on Wednesday arrested and taken to Tihar Jail  by the Delhi Police after he refused to to submit a personal bond of Rs 10,000 in the Nitin Gadkari defamation case.

He will remain in the judicial custody till May 23 when the court of metropolitan magistrate Gomati Manocha will take up the case again for hearing.

Several  AAP supporters, who held protests outside the prison, were detained later.

Party leaders Yogendra Yadav, Sanjay Singh and Manish Sisodia were among others, who were forcibly removed by Delhi Police from the site.

In the court on Wednesday, Kejriwal said that he would not give a bail bond on principle.

After his refusal to pay the bond, the judge asked him whether he was looking for exceptional treatment.

Gadkari had filed a defamation case before metropolitan magistrate in Delhi in mid-February. He had said that Kejriwal has tarnished his image by calling him corrupt.

A Delhi court on Feb 28 summoned former Kejriwal in a criminal defamation case filed against him by  Nitin Gadkari.

Gadkari had slapped a legal notice on Kejriwal for including his name in the latter's "India's Most Corrupt Politicians" list.