Assault case against AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya

Police have registered a case against AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya, who allegedly assaulted a 60-year-old man at southeast Delhi's Tughlaqabad area, police said on Saturday.

This is the second case registered against the Sangam Vihar legislator in one week.

In his complaint, the 60-year-old man told police that Mohaniya allegedly slapped him, and his men thrashed him, when he approached the MLA to complain about severe water crisis in his locality on Wednesday,the same day on which Mohaniya had allegedly misbehaved with a group of women who had approached him regarding the same problem, a senior police official said.

The FIR was registered under IPC Sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt, 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) against Mohaniya and his men at Govindpuri Police Station, the official said.