CS assault: Jarwal seeks court-monitored probe

AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal, who is one of the accused in the Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash assault case, has moved an application seeking court-monitored investigation into the matter.

Taking the application on record, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal on Thursday issued notice to the Delhi Police seeking their reply by June 27.

In the application filed through advocates B.S. Joon and Mohammad Irshad, the MLA submitted that the investigating agency, particularly the Additional DCP, Harinder Singh, was acting under the influence of the complainant (Chief Secretary) and the Delhi Lieutenant-Governor with whom a power- sharing struggle had been going on for the past three years in respect of which a litigation was pending before the Supreme Court.

An unfair and bias attitude of the investigating agency was also reflected in the investigation of the assault on Delhi Minister Imran Hussain by some Delhi Secretariat employees on the instigation of the Chief Secretary.

No steps had been taken to conduct a proper investigation into the matter despite issuance of specific directions by a Metropolitan Magistrate court. The conduct of the police with regard to the two cases was discriminatory and bias which had caused a an apprehension in the mind of the applicant that there would be no impartial investigation in the Chief Secretary assault case.