On Friday AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal arrived at the Tis Hazari Court in Delhi to get her statement recorded under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Under Section 164, a magistrate can record a person’s statement or confession during a police investigation before the trial.
An FIR was registered on Thursday in connection with the assault on Maliwal after she filed a complaint with the Delhi Police against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide, Bibhav Kumar for being assaulted at the Chief Minister’s House. Kumar has been named in the FIR.
According to the police FIR, Maliwal in her complaint said that she was slapped, hit on the stomach, attacked and kicked by Bibhav Kumar at the Chief Minister’s residence. The Delhi police filed an FIR in connection with the alleged assault naming Bibhav Kumar.
The FIR has been registered under sections 354, 506, 509, and 323 of the IPC, among other sections, for offences including assault or criminal force on a woman with intent to outrage her modesty, criminal intimidation, word gesture or acts of intent to insult and assault.
The Delhi Police has written to the company that has installed CCTVs at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s place to take footage of the incident in which party MP Swati Maliwal was allegedly assaulted at the Chief Minister’s house.
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