AAP held protests outside the BJP offices in several cities on Monday, even as a court here granted the CBI five-day custody of Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case.

Sisodia, who practically runs the Delhi government, was arrested after eight hours of questioning by the CBI on Sunday, with police detaining several AAP leaders, including MP Sanjay Singh, for protesting near the agency’s headquarters. They were released at noon on Monday.

The controversial liquor policy lasted for eight months until it was withdrawn last July after lieutenant governor V. K. Saxena requested a CBI probe.

The Enforcement Directorate, which also probed the case didn’t list any ministers as accused, although chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is among those mentioned in the conspiracy to facilitate liquor cartels.

The CBI has named Sisodia as an accused in its FIR, which AAP blames on political vendetta by the BJP. The party had called for a “Black Day” against the alleged misuse of the central agencies to arrest Sisodia.

An additional 1,500 armed police personnel were deployed in the city and around half of them faced off with AAP supporters on Deendayal Upadhyaya Marg when they tried to march to the BJP headquarters. The police briefly entered the AAP office premises and detained a few protesters.

In Bhopal, AAP cadres were arrested for barging into the BJP office.

Protests were held in almost every state, except those that had elections.

Party spokesman and Delhi MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed that “80 per cent of the organisational leadership” had been detained since Sunday.

Condemning the arrest, CPM Delhi state secretary K.M. Tewari said: “The Modi government, which jails political opponents in the name of combating corruption, is silent on the corruption of the Adani group. Such duplicity has become the norm of the BJP.”