AAP leader and former Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti was today denied anticipatory bail by a Delhi court which termed the plea as “pre-mature”.
Additional Sessions Judge Paramjeet Singh dismissed Bharti’s plea, saying since there was no FIR or any apprehension of arrest, the application was premature.
Soon after the dismissal of his plea, the AAP leader said:
My sole purpose was to attract court’s attention over the matter so that it could be referred for mediation as the issue revolves around the lives of two infants.
— Somnath Bharti, AAP Leader
Last month, the politician’s wife Lipika Bharti had filed a complaint with Delhi Commission for Women accusing him of domestic violence and mental torture since 2010.
It would be difficult for me to summarise all these. It’s going on for a long time. It has been going on since 2010. I want separation, I want to be out from this marriage. I want to live with dignity with my children. It has been a continuous process which I was going through.
— Lipika Bharti, Wife of Somnath Bharti
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