In the Supreme Court, the Delhi Police filed an affidavit accusing AAP leaders and workers of big conspiracy in the assault case including its own Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal. Maliwal was assaulted by Bibhav Kumar, the former personal assistant of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, at the latter’s residence on 13th May, 2024.
‘AAP threw its weight behind Kumar and abandoned its own MP indicating a larger conspiracy’, said the Delhi Police. The affidavit read, ‘Investigation has brought out the fact that the petitioner and the CM, Delhi, were together at the scene of the crime, i.e., the Delhi residence, after the commission of the crime for a significant period of time’.
It added, ‘The contrarian public stands taken by public servants in the following days also needs to be examined in its correct way to decode if there was a larger conspiracy behind the assault on the complainant/victim at the hands of the petitioner’. The Delhi police pointed out that selective CCTV footage was leaked to the media, prior to recovery of recording devices.
The police noted in its affidavit, ‘This act also needs to be examined to find out whether the crime was conspiratorial or otherwise. Therefore, there is still an apprehension that petitioner may influence the witnesses and thus fails to qualify the triple test as laid down by this court’.
It continued, ‘The manner of brutal assault on the complainant, can be seen as mentioned in her complaint and corroborated by the MLC. The complainant victim has presided over DCW as Chairperson and such an assault on her, and that too at the residence of the Chief Minister, casts aspersions on women’s safety in society’.
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