‘Police hiding CCTV footage’: AAP’s big claim in Delhi CM Rekha Gupta attack case; raises previous assaults on Arvind Kejriwal | India News

Arvind Kejriwal (ANI picture) and Saurabh Bhardwaj (PTI picture)

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party‘s state president Saurabh Bhardwaj on Thursday alleged that Delhi Police is withholding essential CCTV footage associated to the latest attack on chief minister Rekha Gupta throughout a public listening to at her Civil Lines camp workplace.Addressing reporters, the AAP chief stated that whereas police promptly registered an FIR in Gupta’s case, related seriousness was lacking in earlier assaults on former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.“We are glad that in Rekha Gupta’s case, the police have registered an FIR, but I believe that the police are hiding the CCTV footage of the incident to cover up their failure,” Bhardwaj stated.He additional recalled earlier incidents the place Kejriwal was bodily attacked throughout public occasions. “Before this, several attacks have been made on Arvind Kejriwal… While we haven’t seen CCTV footage of an attack on Rekha Gupta yet, attacks on Arvind Kejriwal were recorded and streamed everywhere.”The AAP chief alleged that police failed in their obligation by not registering earlier assaults on Kejriwal as circumstances of try and homicide and by not taking the accused into custody. According to him, these incidents had been intentionally dealt with weakly, with lax safety, and dismissed as acts of public anger — in contrast to the swift motion taken in Gupta’s case.A day earlier, Bhardwaj had additionally expressed disappointment over the incident, stressing that violence has no place in society and goes towards the rules of Mahatma Gandhi. He questioned the forces “patronising” violence, stating that it isn’t restricted to assaults on political leaders but additionally contains cases the place the police took violent motion towards SSC college students and academics.He additionally referred to a previous incident when a BJP supporter attacked Arvind Kejriwal throughout an election marketing campaign. At the time, Bhardwaj stated, BJP leaders dismissed the attack because the act of a citizen upset with Kejriwal. “During an election program, a BJP supporter had attacked Arvind Kejriwal. At the time, the BJP said that the person was a civil defence volunteer who was upset with Arvind Kejriwal. Whenever there was an attack on Arvind Kejriwal, the BJP said that the people of Delhi were upset with him. We won’t say that people of Delhi are upset with Rekha Gupta ji, and this is why an attack happened. An attack on anyone is wrong. We are supporting the BJP at this time as we believe that, in principle, violence is wrong, and all parties should condemn such an act,” he stated in a video message.The attack on Gupta occurred on Wednesday morning throughout her weekly Jan Sunwai session. According to the Delhi CMO, the assault gave the impression to be a part of a “well-planned conspiracy to kill her.” She was taken to hospital for a medical examination and later discharged.Police officers recognized the accused as Rajesh Sakriya Khimjibhai, 41, a resident of Rajkot in Gujarat. He has been remanded to five-day police custody, with the Special Cell, Intelligence Bureau and native police collectively probing the case. Investigators are inspecting his telephone and social media exercise for attainable hyperlinks.