A Delhi court on Thursday discharged AAP MLA Sharad Chauhan and five others in a case of abetment of suicide of a woman party worker in 2016.
Special judge M K Nagpal, however, directed to frame charges against one of Chauhan's associates, Ramesh Bhardwaj, saying there was sufficient prima facie evidence to hold him responsible. Bhardwaj was also accused in a sexual harassment case filed by the deceased.
According to the complaint, the main accused Bhardwaj was a close associate of Chauhan and, therefore, the politician always protected and sheltered him in the sexual harassment incident.