A DELHI court on Wednesday (11) discharged Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia along with nine others in a case related to alleged assault of former chief secretary of the state, Anshu Prakash.
The special court, presided over by additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sachin Gupta, pronounced the order. The judge though ordered the framing of charges against members of legislative assemblies of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party – Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal.
Kejriwal and 12 others were booked by the police under various sections of the Indian Penal Code over the alleged assault that took place on the intervening night of February 19 and 20 in 2018 at the chief minister’s residence, where Prakash was called.
A case was registered on Prakash’s complaint. He accused the AAP lawmakers, including Kejriwal and Sisodia, of assault and the others who were named as accused included besides Khan and Jarwal, Nitin Tyagi, Rituraj Govind, Ajay Dutt, Rajesh Rishi, Parveen Kumar, Sanjeev Jha, Rajesh Gupta, Madan Lal and Dinesh Mohaniya.
The sections under which Kejriwal and others were booked are: 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 323 (causing hurt), etc.
Kejriwal was later seen retweeting a post announcing the news of the court discharging him and the others, saying “Satyameva Jayate” (truth alone triumphs).
AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj, who is also a Delhi lawmaker, said the case was an attempt to malign Kejriwal and Sisodia. Sisodia said after the court’s order that prime minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party fear Kejriwal, who he called the “most popular CM of India”.
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