Sacked Delhi Minister and AAP MlA Sandeep Kumar, arrested on rape charges on the complaint of a woman, was on Friday sent to 14-day judicial custody by a court.
Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry remanded 36-year-old Kumar to judicial custody till September 23 after the Delhi Police submitted he was not required for custodial interrogation.
Police sought judicial custody of the MlA, who was produced before the court on expiry of his one-day police remand, to conduct fair investigation and prevent the accused from tampering with evidence.
The police, which had on Thursday got extended Kumar’s police custody by a day to recover the original electronic device used for making the alleged objectionable video, said
it could not be recovered.
Kumar was arrested on September 3 after a woman had approached Sultanpuri police station in North Delhi complaining of sexual harassment against the former Social Welfare and Women and Child Development Minister, following which a case was filed. The woman had figured in an objectionable video with him.