AAP legislator Dinesh Mohaniya.
New Delhi:
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Dinesh Mohaniya has been booked for allegedly assaulting a fruit vendor in Delhi’s Sangam Vihar space earlier this week.
Mr Mohaniya, who’s the MLA from Sangam Vihar, nonetheless, dismissed the allegation and stated he had solely requested the fruit vendor to take away his stall, which was reportedly arrange on prime of a clogged sewer, for civic employees to wash the world.
According to the primary info report (FIR) filed underneath numerous provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) towards Mr Mohaniya, the incident befell at Peepal Chowk in Ratia Marg on Wednesday, when the fruit vendor, Naresh, was at his store.
In his grievance, Mr Naresh stated Mr Mohaniya and his aides arrived and began hurling abuses, asking him to make sure his store doesn’t encroach on the highway.
Mr Naresh stated that as he went inside his store to get his telephone, the AAP legislator and his aides adopted him and allegedly assaulted him earlier than leaving the spot. He additionally stated that he recognises two of the AAP leaders’ aides, who have been current on the spot.
Mr Mohaniya stated such allegations are certain to floor forward of the Delhi elections in February.
“Police ought to assessment the CCTV footage of the world to determine the reality. That is a market space, how come nobody witnessed the assault? There is a sewer beneath his store and the civic employees have been asking him to wash it for fairly a while. There has been a water logging subject. But he (Naresh) has been preserving his stuff on prime of the sewer with out cleansing it. I solely shouted at him…,” Mr Mohaniya instructed reporters.