Somnath Bharti won't resign as Law Minister, though case to be judicially enquired: AAP

Taking a decision on the controversy following the recent raid conducted by Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yogendra Yadav on Thursday said that the Lieutenant Governor has ordered a judicial inquiry into the matter and the report would be out in a month, and that Bharti would not be resigning as the Delhi Law Minister.

Yogendra Yadav disclosed that the party investigations found no evidence to suggest that Bharti made racist comments or misbehaved with African women during the controversial midnight raid that he led at a south Delhi locality last week.

"The Lieutenant Governor has ordered a judicial inquiry into the matter, and that the report would be out in a month," said Yadav.

"But I would like to say that Somnath Bharti didn't intervene and conducted the raid in Khidki extension area due to some personal agenda, but due to repeated requests of locals," he said.

"I would request the people to go and speak to people in Khidki extension about their view on this episode and then draw their conclusion,' he added.

Yadav, however, added: "Bharti did use obscene language against a few political opponents, and we condemned it, and told him to exercise restraint."

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party conducted a Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting to take a decision on Law Minister Somnath Bharti at the Delhi Secretariat today.

Somnath Bharti and his supporters have been accused of illegally detaining Ugandan women and forcing them to give medical tests.

Bharati alleged that a sex trade and drug peddling racket was flourishing in the locality with the help of foreign nationals.

He had demanded that the police take action against the offenders.