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New Delhi : Acting rapidly on complaint of Swati Maliwal, Delhi Police on Saturday arrested Arvind Kejriwal’s personal secretary Bibhav Kumar from the Delhi Chief Minister’s residence.
While granting five days of police custody to Bibhav Kumar, the court observed that “the fact that the video footage was not found in the pendrive provided by the JE to the IO during the course of the investigation and the mobile phone was formatted by the accused speaks volumes.”
The court also noted in the submissions of the police that this is not the first criminal case against the accused.
Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Gaurav Goyal remanded Bibhav Kumar in police custody for 5 days after considering the submissions and documents placed on record by Delhi Police. The court felt it was necessary to grant police custody.
The court said in the order that the accused has to be taken to Mumbai and other parts of Delhi, which will not be possible without police custody remand.
“Considering the submissions made on behalf of both parties, I find there is necessity of police custody remand in this case. Accordingly, the application moved by the IO is partly allowed and the accused is remanded to police custody remand for a period of 05 days,” MM Gaurav Goyal said in the order passed on May 19 at 12.45 AM.
“Every investigation is a quest to find the truth and it is ultimate goal of every investigation,” the court observed.
Bibhav Kumar was accused of abusing and beating up Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Swati Maliwal at Delhi CM’s residence. Maliwal in her FIR said that while she waited to meet the Chief Minister on May 13, he came into the room, pounced on her and thrashed her black and blue.
Bibhav Kumar, a long-time PS of Arvind Kejriwal, has been taken into custody and is set to be interrogated for the alleged abuse case.
Meanwhile, Bibhav has also lodged a complaint with the Civil Lines police station and added that he was ready for the probe into the incident.
While the Maliwal episode mounts the problems of already beleaguered AAP leadership, the emergence of new CCTV footage has added a fresh twist to the case.
Delhi Police is also likely to scan the CCTV cameras at CM residence. On Friday, the crime scene was also re-created at CM’s residence after the former DCW chief lodged the FIR.
Meanwhile, the BJP has gone all guns blazing at Arvind Kejriwal and is lambasting the AAP leadership for attacking the woman MP inside CM house, while describing the episode as ‘cheerharan’.
It also accused the AAP of shielding Kejriwal’s personal secretary despite having ample ‘evidence’ against him.
