CM KEJRIWAL AND SISODIA TO BE CHARGED; AAP CRIES CONSPIRACY
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia might be charged by the police with criminal conspiracy over the alleged attack on a top bureaucrat in February. Sources say the police are reportedly preparing a chargesheet based on the evidence and statements of many and it is set to be filed soon.
The Delhi Police is expected to file a chargesheet in the case soon. “We are at an advanced stage of investigation and the chargesheet is being prepared,” an officer said. The police had on February 23, examined the CCTV system installed at Kejriwal's official residence in Civil Lines area and seized the hard disk connected to the system for investigation.
Anshu Prakash has alleged that in CM Kejriwal's presence, he was attacked by lawmakers of Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He complained to the police that he was beaten by two legislators as part of a conspiracy between everyone present in the room, a statement seen to point at the Chief Minister.
In response to the reports on preparing charge sheet against the CM and Deputy CM, the AAP slammed the Delhi police. "With full responsibility, the AAP states that no incident of violence took place on the night of 19th February 2018 at the residence of the Delhi Chief Minister," said AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj.
“Delhi Police has been planting all kinds of fictitious stories for last four months, but has been unable to answer a simple question that if the Chief Secretary was assaulted how was it that he was seen in the CCTV footage normally walking out on his own from the CM residence? The truth is that a conspiracy was hatched to defame the Delhi CM and Deputy CM in a bid to destabilise the elected State Government,” Bharadwaj added.
The opposition Congress said the case is of "serious concern". "The truth of the case should come out and the people should know what is the reality and assault of CS in presence of CM and Deputy CM is an issue of serious concern," said Sharmistha Mukherjee, Delhi Pradesh Congress spokesperson.