Kejriwal may face conspiracy charge
Delhi police probing the alleged assault on chief secretary Anshu Prakash are likely to charge sheet chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for criminal conspiracy, sources said.
A senior police officer confirmed that the charge sheet would be filed at the Tis Hazari court either on Saturday or early next week.
Though Kejriwal was not arrested or named an accused in the first information report (FIR), police had questioned him twice.
An official said police would also charge sheet deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia for the same offence.
Prakash, who had gone to attend a late night meeting at Kejriwal’s Civil Lines residence on February 19, had alleged that he was locked in one of the rooms and assaulted by Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Amanutullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal. The two MLAs were arrested and later released on bail.
Last month, when a police team questioned Kejriwal, the investigators asked him if the assault on Prakash was preplanned.
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The AAP has denied the chief secretary’s allegations and called the case politically motivated.
The incident deepened the divide between the ministers of the Delhi government and the bureaucrats who refused to attend meetings called by the ministers citing a threat to their life.
Kejriwal along with his three ministers also held a sit-in protest at lieutenant governor Anil Baijal’s office and refused to leave the L-G office premises until Baijal intervened and called off the strike by the bureaucrats.
Kejriwal left the L-G office only after IAS officers held a press conference denying there was any strike and said they were working as usual.
The IAS officers also said they were ready to sit and sort out problems with the ministers.
A mob set ablaze a truck carrying bovine animals allegedly without permission along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
The bovine-laden truck, which was on way to Kashmir, was stopped by a mob on the highway at Kohbag near Ramban on Wednesday evening, a police official said.
The official added that the driver abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene.
The irate mob freed over two dozen cattle loaded in the truck and set the vehicle ablaze following which traffic on the highway remained suspended for nearly two hours and was restored only after hectic efforts by senior civil and police officials.
Two cases have been registered against unidentified bovine smugglers and the mob, police said, adding no arrests have been made so far.
While one FIR was lodged against the persons trying to smuggle the bovine animals, the other was registered against the mob for setting the truck on fire.
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