2 min readNew DelhiFeb 28, 2026 05:54 AM IST From six months to almost two-and-a-half years, five leaders from the Aam Aadmi Party’s top leadership, including its convenor Arvind Kejriwal, spent an aggregate of 82 months – only two months shy of seven years — behind bars. It started in May 2022 with the arrest of one of Kejriwal’s close aides Satyendar Jain, who was the Delhi Health Minister at the time, in an alleged money laundering case by the ED. Jain spent two years and five months behind bars in a case registered by the CBI in 2017. He is the only one on the list of AAP leaders who were sent to jail on charges separate from the excise case. Another jolt came when AAP’s communications in-charge Vijay Nair was arrested in September 2022. He was released two years later in the same month in 2024. The bigger jolt came when Manish Sisodia, then Delhi Deputy CM, was arrested in February 2023. He walked out of jail 17 months later in August 2024. …