Chandigarh, Feb. 28 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, cabinet colleagues and several other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders in the state on Friday hailed the discharge of party supremo and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ex-deputy Manish Sisodia by a court in the excise policy case as a "victory of truth and justice".

Mann said the discharge of Kejriwal, Sisodia and others had vindicated the party's consistent stand that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and other central agencies had been reduced to "mere puppets in the hands of the central government to target political rivals".

"The case against Arvind Kejriwal and others was a desperate attempt by the Union government to stop the AAP, which was spreadi...