Slap row: AAP seeks FIR against Parvesh Verma
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday held a protest in west Delhi's Tilak Nagar area, demanding registration of an FIR against Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh over an alleged slapping incident.
AAP Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj was detained by Delhi Police during the protest.
"We are going to the DCP office because the FIR has not been registered yet. When everything happened in front of the SHO and everything is on video, why has the FIR not been registered? This is complete collusion by the police. This hooliganism will not be tolerated," Bharadwaj told reporters.
Scores of AAP workers, along with local MLA Jarnail Singh, raised slogans demanding the resignation of the PWD minister and registration of an FIR against him.
"To maintain law and order, some people have been detained and were removed to Jaffarpur Kalan Police Station," a police source said.
A political row erupted in Delhi on Sunday after a video surfaced on social media purportedly showing Parvesh Sahib Singh slapping a man who was recording a road inspection in west Delhi's Tilak Nagar.
The incident, captured in a video shared by Jarnail Singh on social media, took place when the minister was inspecting a newly laid road in the area. The MLA questioned the quality of the work and pulled out portions of the road surface by hand. A man standing nearby and recording the proceedings was then allegedly slapped by the minister.
