AAP MLA Booked for ‘Manhandling’ Women

The Sangam Vihar MLA has been booked on charges of causing hurt and intending to hurt the modesty of women.

AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya. (Photo courtesy: Twitter/@DineshMohaniya)

AAP MLA and vice chairman of Delhi Jal Board, Dinesh Mohaniya, was booked on Wednesday for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women who approached him with a complaint regarding water crisis in their locality.

The Sangam Vihar MLA has been booked on charges of causing hurt, criminal intimidation and using word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman, police said.

Police sources said that the MLA was likely to be arrested in connection with the case. The complainants, who are residents of Sangam Vihar, alleged that Mohaniya and his accomplices “manhandled” and “threatened” them on Tuesday when they sought his help in the water crisis faced by them.

An FIR has been registered under Sections 323, 506 and 509 of IPC against Mohaniya at Neb Sarai police station following a complaint by the group of women.

<b>Nupur Prasad, Additional DCP (South), Delhi Police</b>

The AAP MLA, however, denied the charge and said that he was being targeted on the basis of a purported video aired by some news channels. He said that he was not present at the place at the time of the alleged incident.

I am ready to cooperate with the police investigation but the allegations against me are baseless.

<b>Dinesh Mohaniya, MLA, AAP</b>