Chief secy assault case: AAP accuses Delhi Police of 'leaking' contents of charge sheet to media

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Aug 14 2018 | 11:30 PM IST

The AAP today hit out at Delhi Police alleging that it leaked details of its chargesheet in the chief secretary assault case even as an application was filed in a city court for restraining it from making its content public.

Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi unit spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj accused Additional DCP (North Delhi) Harender Kumar of behaving as a "spokesperson of BJP" and violating the law.

"DCP Harender is openly violating the law. How can contents of chargesheet be leaked to Media without Court taking cognizance. Copy(chargesheet) has not been shared with any of the MLAs," he tweeted.

The officer reportedly said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's close aides Bibhav Kumar and Vivek Yadav were prosecution witness in the chief secretary assault case.

However, later he said in a statement, "They(AAP) have been filing a number of petitions in the court against police and me in particular, asking for the copy of the statements, copy of video CDs, monitoring of investigation by the court, harassment of their counsels by the police and so on. We will file the reply and clear our stand."
The application stated "the investigating agency is selectively leaking the excerpts of the charge sheet to the media malafidely, to assassinate the character of the persons allegedly mentioned in the charge sheet, especially Kejriwal and Sisodia."

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First Published: Aug 14 2018 | 11:30 PM IST

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