<span style="color: #222222;">Enforcement Directorate has arrested Maharashtra's former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh after more than 12 hours of questioning in Mumbai in connection with a money laundering case. Deshmukh, who had stepped down earlier this year from his post amid a row over bribery allegations against him, was refused relief by the Bombay High Court on Friday as he had appealed for the cancellation of the summons by the probe agency.<br />''<br />''In a video statement yesterday, the 71-year-old NCP leader had said that all allegations against him are false. Mumbai's former Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had accused Deshmukh of corruption and extortion. In a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Param Bir Singh had accused Deshmukh of interference and using the police to extort up to 100 crore rupees every month.</span><br />