Man who slapped NCP chief held

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police Wednesday said a 36-year-old man, who in 2011 had allegedly slapped Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar during a public function at the NDMC Centre has been arrested again as he had disappeared during the trial in the case.

Police said the man was evading court proceedings in another case wherein he had allegedly assaulted a police constable in Parliament Street in 2012. The courts concerned had declared him a proclaimed offender (PO) in both cases as he had stopped attending trials, the police said.

Deputy commissioner of police (New Delhi) Eish Singhal said Arvinder Singh alias Harvinder Singh was first arrested in 2011 from Connaught Place after he allegedly slapped the politician. Police said Pawar was walking out of the NDMC auditorium after attending a function there when Singh allegedly broke away from a group of journalists and assaulted the minister.