Ugandan women were detained, threatened: lawyer; AAP denies

Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti and his supporters forcibly detained and threatened four Ugandan women, one of whom was not allowed to go to toilet during a confrontation with police over inaction against a suspected prostitution ring, a senior lawyer today alleged.
Former Solicitor General Harish Salve, who will represent the women who have filed a complaint with the Delhi Police against 'unknown persons' in this connection, said that he is "surprised as to why the police did not arrest the minister and his motley crowd and deal with them firmly rather than being abused by them".
However, Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia denied the charge that the women were harassed.

The claims and counter claims came as the issue snowballed into a major controversy with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal meeting Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to demand action against police officials involved in the incident.
"I was given to understand by reliable sources that a mob surrounded these ladies, who were in a car, forcibly detained them. That is a criminal offence. (They also) Threatened them, intimidated them, one of them had even complained of an injury... And were not even allowed to visit a toilet to the extent that one of them had to go to the toilet outside the car in full public gaze. They have violated 364, 506 of the IPC," he told NDTV.

Salve also said that had the police arrested the women at the behest of the minister, it would have been "illegal".
He said if the Home Minister suspends the policemen after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sits on a 'dharna', "the court will set aside the suspension in a matter of five minutes".
"Just being a minister does not give anybody a right to go and direct the police to arrest so and so," he said.