The Delhi Police registered a formal First Information Report against prominent Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including former Delhi cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and legislator Jarnail Singh, following an alleged altercation with an on-duty police head constable in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area. Law enforcement officials invoked statutory provisions governing criminal intimidation, assault on a public servant discharging official duty, and unlawful obstruction.
According to the police complaint, the confrontation erupted when the political leaders accompanied local party workers during an inspection of civic drainage works, leading to heated arguments with local police personnel managing public crowd control. The complainant alleged that party functionaries physically pushed and threatened the head constable when officers attempted to prevent unauthorized access to an adjacent security perimeter.
Aam Aadmi Party spokespersons strongly refuted the police allegations, characterizing the registration of criminal cases as political intimidation orchestrated to suppress opposition oversight of civic infrastructure failures. Party leaders claimed that their representatives were interacting peacefully with local residents when police personnel behaved discourteously, demanding an impartial review of security video recordings.
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