HC extends Jarnail Singh's protection from arrest till Sept 7

Delhi High Court today extended till September 7 the interim protection from arrest granted to AAP MLA Jarnail Singh, who has been accused of assaulting an MCD engineer and preventing him from demolishing an illegal construction in West Delhi.
Justice Indermeet Kaur extended the relief to the MLA, saying the "police was unnecessarily creating a hype in this matter. What can a legislator do? There are many more issues which are serious in nature, but no arrests are being made."
"You (MCD and Delhi police) have a demolition order, why don't you go an execute your orders," the court said, adding that May 18 order by which the MLA was given protection from arrest is extended till September 7.

The court's directions came on the plea of the MLA from Tilak Nagar constituency who had moved the high court after the trial court had on May 2 refused him anticipatory bail.
Meanwhile, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain, appearing for Delhi police requested the court that the MLA's application for anticipatory bail be turned down and he be handed over to the police for custodial interrogation because due to the influence exercised by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA, the complainant official was not cooperating with the probe.
ASG also submitted that being an elected representative and sitting MLA, he was supposed to help government servants who were performing their official duties but instead of doing so he sided with ruckus wrong doers.

While extending Singh's interim protection, which was initially granted on May 6 till May 18 and later till today, the court noted that the mobile phones of the MLA and his supporter, Amarjeet Singh, has been sent to forensic science laboratory (FSL) for analyses, the report of which is awaited.
Meanwhile, it asked FSL Director to expedite the results of the forensic analysis.
It also directed FSL to retrieve from Amarjeet's phone the recording he had made of the incident which he had subsequently deleted.