AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal recalled her May 13 encounter with Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar and alleged the Delhi chief minister was present at his residence when she was assaulted. Maliwal’s current revelation contradicts the AAP supremo’s statement that he was not present at his residence when the alleged assault took place.
“I went to Kejriwal’s residence on May 13 around 9am. The staff made me sit in the drawing room and told me that Kejriwal would come to meet me there…By that time, Bibhav barged into the room. I told him Arvind ji was coming to meet me, what’s the issue. I said this much and he started beating me…He slapped me seven-eight times. When I tried to push him, he grabbed my legs and pulled me down on the floor. My head banged on the centre table. As I fell on the floor, he started kicking me. I screamed for help but nobody came,” Swati Maliwal said in an interview with news agency ANI.
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“I told him that I was on my periods but still he didn’t listen and kept hitting me,” she added.
Maliwal then said when she called the police, Bibhav told her to do “whatever she wants to”.
“I called the police and when he realized that I had called the police, he went out and called the security… They made a 15-second doctored video viral, they tampered with the evidence,” she stated.
While the AAP has called it a conspiracy by the BJP and an attempt to unsettle the party and its leader, Arvind Kejriwal, in the middle of the Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party has repeatedly denied the charge, and called AAP “anti-aurat (woman) party”. Earlier, reacting to a section of the AAP calling her a BJP agent, Maliwal had said, they were “questioning her character to save a goon”.
Upon being asked whether Bibhav was instructed to beat her up, the former DCW head said, “It is a matter of investigation whether he acted on his own or whether he was instructed to do so. I am cooperating with the investigation.”
“I am not giving any clean chit to anyone. The fact is I was being beaten up and Arvind Kejriwal was there,” Maliwal added.
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