NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has registered a case against AAP leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj, Jarnail Singh and others for allegedly assaulting a head constable and obstructing him while he was on duty. The incident took place on Monday when the AAP leaders accompanied former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal during his visit to Tilak Nagar.
The head constable was in plain clothes and recording videos in the area when a crowd of AAP supporters surrounded and allegedly assaulted him. He was taken for a medical examination.
On Tuesday, Bharadwaj, AAP MLA Kuldeep Kumar and other leaders were detained near Delhi Police headquarters. Bharadwaj said they had gone to the headquarters to file an FIR against PWD Minister Pravesh Verma, but were detained.
The development came a day after an incident during a road inspection by Verma in Tilak Nagar on Sunday. A video of the incident shows a man, identified as Sahib Singh, recording the minister and AAP MLA Jarnail Singh, while holding large chunks of road material. The video shows Verma pulling down Singh’s mobile phone before slapping him. Singh then appears to confront the minister before a security guard intervenes and separates the two as people gather around them.
On Monday, police filed a non-cognisable report (NCR) against Verma and an FIR against Jarnail Singh for allegedly obstructing a PWD assistant engineer and other public servants in the discharge of their duty.