Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Thursday, May 23, said she was ready to take narco and polygraph tests in the matter of alleged assault by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s personal secretary Bibhav Kumar. She said she was not giving a “clean chit to anyone”, noting Kejriwal was at his Civil Lines residence on May 13 morning when she was assaulted.
“I am ready to undergo a polygraph and narco test,” Maliwal told an agency today.
Recounting the alleged assault, she said she had gone to meet Kejriwal at his residence around 9 am and was asked to wait.
She said she was not giving a “clean chit to anyone”, noting Kejriwal was at his Civil Lines residence on May 13 morning when she was assaulted.
“I am ready to undergo a polygraph and narco test,” Maliwal told an agency today.
Recounting the alleged assault, she said she had gone to meet Kejriwal at his residence around 9 am and was asked to wait.
On the videos released by AAP that show her sitting calmly, Maliwal said, “When he saw a call had been made to 112, he summoned security and began making the video. The video is over 10 minutes long, but only a small part has been released. I told officials how I was beaten. I said I would leave when cops arrive but I wasn’t heard.” She said fearful of the consequences, she first hesitated to make the matter public.
“When media began calling, I got scared because I did not want the issue to be politicised during the Lok Sabha elections. Sanjay Singh even condemned the incident saying Kejriwal had taken cognisance and would take action. But the party took a U-turn and said I was being blackmailed by the BJP over a 2016 corruption case,” said Maliwal.
“My friends are being pressured to share personal photos of me dancing. Party workers in the US were asked to send my photos…If they wanted the Rajya Sabha seat, if they had asked for it with love, I would have given up my life. However, no matter who comes to power, I will not resign now,” said Maliwal. Source: TNS
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Ready for polygraph, narco test in assault case: Swati Maliwal
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Delhi women’s panel chief Swati Maliwal ‘molested, dragged’ by ‘drunk car driver’ for 15 metres
Delhi Police on Thursday, January 19, said they had arrested a man in connection with an incident in which Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal alleged that she was “molested” and “dragged by a car” for several metres opposite AIIMS in the national capital in the early hours of the day. Speaking to ANI, DCP South Chandan Chowdhary said that according to Maliwal, she was with her team outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here at around 2.45am when the arrested man, later identified as Harish Chandra, hailing from city’s Sangam Vihar and who appeared to be in an inebriated state approached her.
The DCW chief in her complaint to the police alleged that the man who was driving a white-coloured car stopped his car near where she was standing and “made indecent gestures”. He then beckoned her to sit in his vehicle, claimed Maliwal. When the DCW chief reprimanded him, the man allegedly went away but returned a short while later and repeated his actions, the police said.
“She was standing with her team at Gate 2 of AIIMS which falls under the Kotla police station area. According to her, when she was standing on the footpath, a white-coloured vehicle approached her whose driver offered her a lift and started insisting that she sit in the car. “When she refused and went near the driver’s window to reprimand him, the man rolled up the car’s glass window and her hand got stuck and she got dragged for about 10-15 metres,” DCP Chowdhary said.
The police official said a PCR call was received at around 3.12am and a police team, including the ACP, Hauz Khas, reached the spot at around 3.20am and the accused was apprehended.
“The police took a written complaint from Maliwal and sent her and the accused for medical examination,” the DCP added. A case was registered under Sections 323/341/509 of the IPC and 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act. Later, the section of molestation (354) was also included. Further investigation is under way. Source: ANI