Delhi court summons Kejriwal, Sisodia as accused in Chief Secretary assault case

Delhi | Tuesday | 18th September, 2018

Summary:

more-inA Delhi court on Tuesday summoned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia in the case of alleged assault on his Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash in February earlier this year. According to the FIR, the Chief Secretary was allegedly assaulted at the camp office at Mr.

Kejriwal’s residence at midnight on February 19. Besides the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister, the court also summoned 11 AAP MLAs as accused: Amanatullah Khan, Prakash Jarwal, Nitin Tyagi, Rituraj Govind, Sanjeev Jha, Ajay Dutt, Rajesh Rishi, Rajesh Gupta, Madan Lal, Praveen Kumar and Dinesh Mohania. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal asked them to appear before the court on October 25. The Chief Minister had called the meeting to discuss certain “burning issues.”A team headed by Additional DCP (north) Harinder Singh had questioned Mr.

Kejriwal for about three hours at his residence on May 18..