Rahul Gandhi booked by Delhi Police after BJP accuses him of assaulting two MPs
The police have not as yet acted on a complaint by the Opposition party alleging that BJP MPs manhandled Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
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The Delhi Police on Thursday filed a case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the Bharatiya Janata Party accused him of being involved in “physical assault and incitement” during a scuffle in Parliament earlier in the day, PTI reported.
The police, however, have not as yet acted on a complaint by the Opposition party alleging that BJP MPs manhandled Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
Congress and BJP MPs accused each other of manhandling on Thursday after they engaged in a scuffle in the Parliament complex. The Congress protested against Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s alleged insult to BR Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha, while the BJP held a counter-protest, alleging that it was the Congress that had insulted Ambedkar.
The BJP alleged that its MPs Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput fell on the ground and sustained injuries after Gandhi pushed them. The BJP’s Vadodara MP Hemang Joshi, who was accompanied by fellow parliamentarians Anurag Thakur and Bansuri Swaraj, filed a complaint with the police.
The police filed a case against Gandhi under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to voluntarily causing grievous hurt, use of criminal force and criminal intimidation, The Indian Express.
On Thursday, BJP MP from Nagaland Phangnon Konyak also accused Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, of misbehaving with her....
