AAP slams BJP-ruled MCDs for delay in completing projects
The Aam Aadmi Party today lashed out at the BJP-ruled Municipal Corporations in Delhi for "not completing" projects in time,…
Adding to the woes of the Aam Aamdi Party (AAP), the Delhi Police on Thursday arrested legislator Somnath Bharti for assaulting a security guard of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), officials said.
Bharti and his supporters were on September 11 booked for damaging AIIMS property and misbehaving with its security guards even though the MLA denied the allegations.
The Delhi Police registered an FIR following the complaint of AIIMS Chief Security Officer RS Rawat.
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Rawat, in his written complaint at south Delhi’s Hauz Khas police station, said that Bharti, around 9.45 a.m. on September 9 "provoked the mob to damage the fence of government property (AIIMS)".
"Bharti gave permission to unauthorised persons with JCB machines to get access inside AIIMS from Gautam Nagar Nallah road side and misbehaved with security personnel," said a police officer, citing Rawat’s complaint.
In the complaint, it was also alleged that six security personnel were injured while trying to intervene and stop Bharti and his supporters from damaging AIIMS property.
Bharti and his supporters have been booked under Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 186 (obstructing public servant), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
The arrest of Bharti, the legislator from Malviya Nagar area of south Delhi and a former minister, comes a day after another AAP legislator, Amantullah Khan, was arrested for molesting his sister-in-law.
Bharti was earlier booked in a domestic violence case filed against him by his wife Lipika Mitra.
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