Anshu Prakash assault case: Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia named in chargesheet

Delhi Police on Monday filed a chargesheet against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal his deputy Manish Sisodia and 11 other Aam Aadmi Party AAP MLAs for allegedly assaulting Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash in FebruaryThe chargesheet filed in the Patiala House Court on the basis of investigation conducted on the complaint of Prakash also names Amanatullah Khan Prakash Jarwal Nitin Tyagi Rituraj Govind Sanjeev Jha Ajay Dutt Rajesh Rishi Rajesh Gupta Madan Lal Parveen Kumar and Dinesh MohaniaOn February 20 a case was registered on the complaint of Prakash After completion of the investigation and upon collection of evidence on record a chargesheet has been filed in the court a Delhi Police official saidThe Chief Secretary had alleged that he was beaten up by AAP MLAs in the presence of Kejriwal at the Chief Ministers residence on the night of February 19 where he had been called for a latenight meetingHowever in a joint statement Delhi Cabinet ministers Gopal Rai Satyendar Jain Kailash Gahlot Rajendra Pal Gautam and Imran Hussain called the chargesheet bogus and politically motivatedStating that the chargesheet is based on imaginary and false allegations the Delhi ministers termed it a witchhunt against the Delhi governmentThe chargesheet filed by the politically motivated Delhi Police is based on imaginary and false allegations they saidIt is the latest example of the Central governments ongoing unprecedented witchhunt against the Delhi government elected with highestever mandate in Indias electoral history the statement saidThe ministers also said that ever since the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata party BJP President Amit Shah have suffered the worstever electoral humiliation of their political career in February 2015 they have not forgiven the elected government of DelhiThey have relentlessly unleashed all their agencies with full might to crush the AAP government to fulfil their arrogant desire of seeking complete revenge read the statementThey also said that the Modi government has not learnt any lesson from its previous attempt of booking elected MLAs in false cases in the last threeandhalf yearsIt is now a documented fact that the fasttrack courts in Delhi during the last five months have acquitted discharged elected MLAs in 19 out of 22 cases registered against them since February 2015 the statement addedThey also said that no stone has been left unturned in paralysing the Delhi governmentThe latest sinister conspiracy has been hatched through a handpicked bureaucrat of the BJPs Central government to defame the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister in a totally false and untenable caseThis entire conspiracy to name the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister in a fake and laughable criminal case is the result of the extreme frustration of the Modi government which has so far miserably failed in all its attempts to dislodge the Delhi government elected by a historic mandate the statement saidThe ministers also claimed that the chargesheet would be torn to shreds when it is put to legal scrutinyCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever