Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court on Friday sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s close aide Bibhav Kumar to four-day judicial custody in connection with the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Goyal allowed the prosecution’s plea seeking Kumar’s judicial custody for four days, news agency PTI reported. The Delhi Police had arrested Kumar on May 18.
Kumar, the personal assistant to Kejriwal, allegedly assaulted Maliwal at the chief minister’s official residence on May 13. He was under police custody since Saturday.
Maliwal filed an FIR last week, three days after she alleged that Arvind Kejriwal’s close aide Bibhav Kumar physically assaulted her at the chief minister’s residence on May 13. In the FIR, she claimed that Kumar hit her with “full force again and again” and she was “kicked and slapped seven to eight times”. She had also alleged that despite telling him that she was menstruating and in pain, he did not budge.
Maliwal and leaders from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have also been engaging in a war of words with the party claiming that the former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has been spreading lies over her assault.
AAP leader Atishi recently claimed party MP Swati Maliwal, who has accused Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar of assaulting her, is facing arrest in an illegal recruitment case and she was “blackmailed” by the BJP to become part of the “conspiracy” against the Chief Minister.
However, BJP accused the Aam Aadmi Party of indulging in “character assassination” of its Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, instead of taking any action against Bihav Kumar who allegedly assaulted her.
With inputs from agencies.
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Swati Maliwal assault case: Kejriwal aide Bibhav Kumar remanded in 4-day judicial custody
