BJP is using Swati Maliwal assault case to defame Arvind Kejriwal, alleges Aam Aadmi Party
A day after the Delhi chief minister’s aide was booked in the matter, the party accused Maliwal of colluding with the BJP.
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of using Opposition MP Swati Maliwal in the assault case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide to defame the party chief.
On Monday, Maliwal, the Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP, accused Kejriwal’s personal assistant of Bibhav Kumar of assaulting her and went to the police station. However, the police had not received a formal complaint from her at the time.
A day later, the Aam Aadmi Party said it would take strict action against Kumar for allegedly “misbehaving” with Maliwal, the former chief of the Delhi Commission for Women. Party leader Sanjay Singh had said that Kejriwal had acknowledged the incident.
On Thursday, Kumar was booked under Indian Penal Code sections 354 (assault or use of criminal force on woman with intent to disrobe), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt).
A day after he was booked, the Aam Aadmi Party changed its stance on the incident and accused Maliwal of colluding with the BJP, citing as evidence a video widely shared on social media.
Atishi said the video shows Maliwal “comfortably sitting in the drawing room” of the chief minister’s residence and “threatening the security...
