CM Kejriwal and others granted bail in assault case

The Delhi Patiala House Court on Thursday granted bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 11 AAP MLAs in connection with the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash. Next date for court proceedings in the case has been fixed to December 7.

In August, Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia were booked under various sections of the IPC, including sections 120B (Punishment of criminal conspiracy) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of duty).

Others accused in the case were Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs Amanatullah Khan, Prakash Jarwal, Nitin Tyagi, Rituraj Govind, Sanjeev Jha, Ajay Dutt, Rajesh Rishi, Rajesh Gupta, Madan Lal, Parveen Kumar and Dinesh Mohania, who were present at the chief minister’s residence for the meeting on February 19 in which Prakash was allegedly attacked.

However, the AAP had described the case a “midnight conspiracy to defame the Delhi Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and 11 MLAs in a false and laughable case”.

Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash had alleged that he was thrashed by the AAP MLAs in the presence of Delhi CM Kejriwal at the Chief Minister’s residence on February 19 where he had been called for a meeting.

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