Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Somnath Bharti and his supporters have been booked for damaging All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) property and misbehaving with its security guards, Delhi Police said on Sunday. Bharti has denied the allegations.
The Delhi Police registered an FIR following a complaint by AIIMS Chief Security Officer RS Rawat.
Rawat, in his written complaint at south Delhi’s Hauz Khas police station, said that Bharti, at around 9:45 am on 9 September “provoked the mob to damage the fence of government property (AIIMS).”
Bharti gave permission to unauthorised persons with JCB machines to get access inside AIIMS from Gautam Nagar Nallah road side and misbehaved with security personnel.
In the complaint, it was also alleged that six security personnel were injured while trying to intervene and stop Bharti and his supporters from damaging AIIMS property.
Bharti and his supporters have been booked under Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 186 (obstructing public servant), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
The fresh case against Bharti, the legislator from Malviya Nagar area of south Delhi and a former minister, came a day after AAP’s another legislator, Amantullah Khan, was booked for molesting his sister-in-law.
Bharti had been booked earlier in a domestic violence case filed against him by his wife Lipika Mitra. He was later granted bail in the case. Bharti, however, termed the allegations “wrong”.
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