The AAP today said the woman who had accused three party MLAs of manhandling and abusing her in the assembly was a "habitual offender" and had filed similar cases against some other people.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) fielded its woman legislators to defend the party MLAs. The party denied any wrongdoing by its lawmakers.
In her complaint, the woman has accused Oklha AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti and Tilak Nagar MLA Jarnail Singh of abusing and thrashing her in the state assembly premises on June 28, the police said.
Delhi Police have registered a case against the three MLAs.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh, however, called the development "vendetta politics".
"This is vendetta politics by the Centre. We are surprised that the police has arrested only 15 of our MLAs (since coming to power)," he said at a press conference here.
AAP Delhi unit spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said the record of Delhi Police was "very poor" when it came to cases against AAP MLAs.
"The force always faces flak by the judiciary whenever they take such cases to court," he said.
Bhavana Gaur, the president of AAP's women wing, and AAP MLA Alka Lamba claimed that the complainant had earlier made similar accusations against other people.
"The complainant had slapped an AAP leader a few months ago. She had filed similar complaints against her landlord, his sons and another person who had lent her some money," Gaur said.
The woman's husband, however, said the case being referred to by the AAP leaders did not pertain to her landlord, but was a property dispute with a dealer. This is a civil matter and the case is sub-judice, he added.
Gaur claimed that the entry of the woman into the assembly was facilitated by Vijender Gupta, Leader of the Opposition in the assembly, while she made an entry into the assembly premises the next day as the driver of suspended AAP MLA Kapil Mishra.
Calling the "attack" on the complainant "anti-woman", Gupta said his office had facilitated her entry, but it was restricted only to his office and not to the House.
He also questioned why Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal was "silent" on the issue.
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