Charges bogus, police biased: AAP

CS ASSAULT CASE AAP govt terms the charge sheet filed by Delhi Police as politically motivated’, claims it will provide ‘sensational evidence’ in court

The CM should own moral responsibility of the attack and hand over charge to some other party colleague.

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government on Monday said it will give a “sensational evidence” in court against the “bogus” and “politically motivated” charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police in the case of the alleged assault on chief secretary Anshu Prakash.

The government’s stern reaction came after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 11 AAP legislators were named in the Delhi Police charge sheet. “The charge sheet will not stand in the court even for two minutes. Let the court proceedings begin, there will be a sensational evidence given in defence of the CM and others in the case. Just wait and watch,” a media advisor to the chief minister said.

Hours after the police filed the charge sheet, five state ministers Gopal Rai, Satyendar Jain, Kailash Gahlot, Rajendra Pal Gautam and Imran Hussain came together to give a joint statement and called t he police’s act a “witch-hunt against the Delhi government” that was based on “imaginary and false allegations”.

The other two ministers in the cabinet are Kejriwal and Sisodia, both of whom are named in the charge sheet.

“The bogus charge sheet will be torn to shreds when it will be put to legal scrutiny. It will be contested with all legal strength to expose the real face of the (Narendra) Modi government and its puppet Delhi Police,” the ministers’ statement said.

Alleging vendetta politics on the part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ministers said the party has “relentlessly unleashed” all their agencies with full might to “crush the government to fulfil their arro- gant desire of seeking complete revenge”.

“This entire conspiracy to name the chief minister and the deputy chief minister in a fake and laughable criminal case is the result of the extreme frustration of the Modi government, which has so far miserably failed in all its attempts to dislodge the Delhi government elected by a historic mandate,” the statement said.

They also said that the Centre has not learnt any lesson from its previous attempt of booking elected MLAS in false cases in the last three-and-half years.

“It is now a documented fact that the fast-track courts in Delhi during the l ast five months have acquitted/ discharged elected MLAS in 19 out of 22 cases registered against them since February 2015,” they said adding that no stone has been left unturned in paralysing the Delhi government.

AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said lieutenant governor Anil Baijal, Prakash and the Delhi police commissioner were the main players who implemented this conspiracy, hatched at the behest of the Prime Minister’s Office.

While refusing to comment on the issue, Prakash said that whatever he has to he would say in the court. The L-G office did not comment on the issue.

Bureaucrats in the Delhi government, who had a major showdown with the political executive for about four months after Prakash’s incident, said the charge sheet vindicated their stand and corroborated the allegations by the top bureaucrats.

“This incident was an unprecedented one. If this is not taken seriously then it will set the wrong precedent for governments in other states as well,” an official said. Police carrying the 1,300-page charge sheet that names CM Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia as accused in court.

The web of lies and deceit woven by the AAP stand fully exposed. They quietly watched the misdeeds of their cronies.

A meeting is held at chief minister’s residence attended by chief secretary Anshu Prakash, Manish Sisodia and AAP MLAS

Chief secretary files a police complaint alleging he was threatened. Two AAP MLAS are arrested for the assault

IAS officers hold protests

Advisor to the CM, VK Jain is questioned by police. AAP claims IAS officers have started a strike Kejriwal questioned by police

MAY 25: Sisodia questioned

Kejriwal along wth cabinet colleagues refuses to leave L-G’S office, demands officers to rejoin work

The four ministers end their strike after bureaucrats say they will resume attending meetings

Charge sheet filed against Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and 11 MLAS