AAP MLAs sent to 14-day judicial custody by court
BY Sayantan Ghosh22 Feb 2018 11:59 PM IST
Sayantan Ghosh22 Feb 2018 11:59 PM IST
NEW DELHI: AAP MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal, arrested for allegedly assaulting Delhi Chief Secretary, were on Thursday sent to Tihar Jail for 14 days in judicial custody by a Delhi court, which reserved its order on their bail pleas for Friday.
The two MLAs on the expiry of their one-day judicial custody were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Shefali Barnala Tondon who heard their bail applications.
The court had on Wednesday rejected the demand of the police to interrogate them in its custody and kept the bail matter for Thursday as the prosecution wanted to place some documents before it.
The court had on Wednesday termed the alleged assault on the Chief Secretary was a "highly sensitive" case. The magistrate had refused the plea of the Delhi Police to quiz them in custody for two days, saying the legislators were ready to cooperate in the investigation and no case property was to be recovered from them, which was the basic purpose of police custody.
The two MLAs were arrested in connection with the alleged assault on the Delhi chief secretary during a meeting at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence on the night of February 19. While Jarwal, an MLA from Deoli, was arrested on Tuesday night, Khan was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party have rejected the assault allegation and claimed its two legislators had been targeted because one was a Dalit and the other a member of a minority community. AAP leaders also claimed that police had changed the statement of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's adviser VK Jain's deliberately within a day to malign the party.
The police released the report of a medical examination of the chief secretary which said he had a 'bruise' on his lower lip and "swelling" behind the ears.
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