A city court of Rouse Avenue on Wednesday upheld a magistrate court’s decision acquitting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and nine other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders in connection with a 2018 case related to the alleged assault on Delhi’s then Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash, during a meeting at Kejriwal’s official residence on February 19.
“The Trial Court had rightly discharged Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia , Rajesh Rishi, Nitin Tyagi , Praveen Kumar, Ajay Dutt, Sanjeev Jha, Rituraj Govind, Rajesh Gupta, Madan Lal and Dinesh Mohania and further correctly did not charge Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal for the offences under Sections 342/506(ii)/120- B/109/114 IPC.
The revision petition is accordingly without merits and the same is dismissed,” Special Judge Geetanjali Goel said in the order while dismissing the revision petition of Anshu Prakash.
Prakash had challenged the trial court order, contending that it erred in its judgement discharging the politicians in the case.
The alleged assault had triggered a bitter tussle between the Delhi Government and its bureaucrats.
After the court order, Arvind Kejriwal said in a tweet, “God is with us. God’s blessings are upon us. All conspiracies against us fail.”