Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.
New Delhi:
The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police will examine the First Information Report (FIR) towards Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who has been accused of injuring two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on the Parliament complicated, a senior officer stated on Friday.
Mr Gandhi has been booked beneath sections 117 (voluntary inflicting grievous harm), 115 (voluntary inflicting harm), 125 (act of endangering life or private security of others), 131 (use of prison power), 351 (prison intimidation), and three(5) (frequent intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in reference to the face-off between the Opposition and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs on Thursday.
“We have transferred the case from the native police to the crime department,” the officer was quoted as saying by PTI.
On Thursday, ugly scenes unfolded between the Opposition and NDA lawmakers on the Parliament steps, throughout protests over Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s alleged insult to B R Ambedkar within the House on Tuesday. A tussle between the 2 sides left former minister Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput injured.
Both leaders, certainly one of whom is 69 years outdated, are within the hospital.
Mr Sarangi claimed that he obtained injured after Mr Gandhi pushed Mr Rajput. They had been standing on the steps when Mr Rajput allegedly fell on him. “Rahul Gandhi pushed a member of Parliament who fell on me after which I fell down…I used to be standing close to the steps when Rahul Gandhi got here and pushed an MP who then fell on me…” Mr Sarangi had stated.
Various leaders of the BJP subsequently accused Mr Gandhi of hooliganism – allegations the Leader of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha has denied.
Later on Thursday, former Union Minister and BJP MP Anurag Thakur, and get together lawmakers Bansuri Swaraj and Hemang Joshi, filed a criticism towards the Congress chief, and, amongst different issues, accused him of try and homicide.
The Congress, nevertheless, dismissed the FIR towards Mr Gandhi as a “badge of honour” and accused the BJP of utilizing diversionary ways.
The opposition get together additionally alleged that BJP MPs pushed Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and “bodily manhandled” Mr Gandhi. “Now they’re accusing us of shoving them,” Mr Kharge stated on Thursday.
A delegation of Congress MPs, together with Digvijaya Singh, Mukul Wasnik, Rajiv Shukla and Pramod Tiwari, additionally filed a police criticism. In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, a number of Congress MPs requested him to provoke an inquiry into the incident.
Another senior officer stated on Thursday that police have acquired the criticism and are wanting into it.