Assault on chief secretary: Two MLAs sent to judicial custody
new delhi — A Delhi court on Wednesday sent two Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, who allegedly assaulted Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash, in judicial custody till Thursday.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shefali Barnala Tandon refused a Delhi Police plea for police custody of MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal and said their bail pleas will be taken up on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Chief Secretary alleged that he was beaten up by Khan and another MLA in the presence of Arvind Kejriwal at the Chief Minister’s residence here on Monday night, where he had been called for a meeting.
While Jarwal was arrested on Tuesday night, Khan surrendered at a police station here on Wednesday afternoon.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s adviser V.K. Jain was questioned by police at the Civil Lines police station and let off.
Meanwhile, calling the alleged assault on a Delhi bureaucrat a “conspiracy”, the AAP on Wednesday said that its two MLAs — Prakash Jarwal and Amanatullah Khan — were arrested in the case without any inquiry because they belonged to the minority communities of Dalits and Muslims.
“We have the video footage of what happened at Delhi Secretariat yesterday (Tuesday) when our Minister and his Personal Secretary were attacked by a mob that was incited by the BJP but nothing has been done about it. —