New Delhi: The Delhi Police today registered a case of rioting and destruction of public property against Aam Aadmi Party leaders Shazia Ilmi and Ashutosh and arrested 14 others AAP members for the clashes that broke out on Wednesday outside the BJP national headquarters. Those arrested will be produced before a local court in Delhi in the afternoon.
According to police sources, an FIR was lodged at Parliament Street Police Station on Wednesday night against the AAP protesters. Police had initially detained 33 people out of which 14 were arrested late on Wednesday night while others were allowed to go. All those identifiable and present at the protest site have been named in the FIR, said a senior Delhi police official.
Police said, 28 people were injured in the clashes, including with 13 AAP activists and 10 BJP supporters. Police have termed the AAP protest as completely illegal as no prior permission was sought in this connection by the party. Police have also got the entire sequence of events videographer and senior officials said that more arrests are possible after identification in the video footage.
Clashes broke out between workers of the AAP and the BJP in half-a-dozen towns across the country hours after AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal was briefly detained by police in a north Gujarat town. The former Delhi chief minister was released after 30 minutes.
Kejriwal began a four-day tour of Gujarat to check chief minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s claims that the state was a model of development.
He was detained for alleged violation of the model code of conduct by travelling in a long motorcade.
Kejriwal had on Wednesday accused the BJP of instigating violence in front of its headquarters in Delhi even as he apologised for some AAP activists “retaliating” while protesting his detention.
He claimed that AAP workers were first attacked by BJP supporters. Some of the agitated AAP workers had responded by pelting two or three stones.
I am sorry for the mistakes committed by the AAP workers. They should not have resorted to violence on my detention, he said. He also blamed BJP workers for attacking his entourage while travelling in Gujarat and said the glass panes of his car were broken.
Bureau Report
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