New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti is once again in midst of a controversy. The Delhi Police, Wednesday, filed an FIR him on charges of allegedly 'instigating' some men to misbehave with a woman earlier this month.
The case has been registered at the Saket Police Station under IPC section 109- Punishment of abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence.
The men he allegedly instigated have been booked under IPC sections 354- Assault or criminal force to woman, 323- Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt, 506- Punishment for criminal intimidation and 509- Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.
Bharti already faces a chargesheet for attempting to kill his wife Lipika Mitra and inflicting cruelty on her in a domestic violence case.
He also faces charges of molestation and assault and promoting enmity stemming from the January 2014 raid on the African residents of Khirki Extension in his constituency.
