AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, arrested for allegedly assaulting Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash, today moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail. The bail plea has been listed for hearing before Justice Mukta Gupta tomorrow. Khan approached the high court after his earlier bail plea was dismissed by a trial court. In a plea filed through advocate Mohd Irshad, he sought his release saying he was a sitting MLA from Aam Aadmi Party and not a hardened criminal. Khan, who was arrested on February 21, is currently lodged in judicial custody in the case of alleged assault on the bureaucrat during a meeting at Delhi Chief Minister's Arvind Kejriwal's residence on the night of February 19. Another MLA Prakash Jarwal was also arrested in the case. Jarwal's bail plea is also pending before the high court which had sought response of the Delhi Police on the petition.
His bail plea was dismissed twice by a sessions court and a magisterial court. A magisterial court had on February 23 refused to grant bail to Khan and Jarwal in the assault case saying the matter cannot be treated in "a casual and routine manner", while dubbing them as "history-sheeters". Both the MLAs were on February 22 sent to 14-day judicial custody by the court. While Deoli MLA Jarwal was arrested on February 20, Khan, an MLA from Okhla, was taken into custody the next day.
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