AAP Leader Swati Maliwal filed an FIR against Bibhav Kumar the PA to Arvind Kejriwal, raising serious claims of assault.
Ms. Maliwal claims that she was assaulted in the drawing room of the Delhi Chief Minister’s official residence, with the presence of Mr. Kejriwal in the house, on Monday.
She alleged that while she was waiting, Bhaibav Kumar burst into the room and started by abusing her and later slapping her seven-eight times on the face and hitting her chest, stomach, and sensitive parts.
She claimed that “Mr. Bhaivab came to the room and started abusing and slapping her without provocation. I made noise and said let me go but, he kept on beating me, and abusing me in Hindi. We will see, we will deal with it’. I informed him that I was menstruating and in considerable pain, begging him to leave me alone.”
“I felt absolutely shocked and was screaming for help over and over again. In order to protect myself, I pushed him away with my legs. At that time, he pounced on me, brutally dragged and deliberately pulled my shirt up,” the FIR reads. “Bibhav Kumar did not relent and attacked me by kicking me in my chest, stomach and pelvis area with his legs.”
Later she also added that she somehow managed to escape the house and call the police, along with, “When the security personnel arrived, instead of assisting Ms Maliwal, they allegedly followed Mr Kumar’s instruction to throw her out. Despite her condition, she was forced to leave and wait outside the Chief Minister’s residence until the police arrived.
Bibhav came back with the security personnel working at the main gate. I kept telling them that I was brutally beaten up and they should look at my condition and wait until the police comes but they asked me to leave the premises”.
However late the Delhi Police registered an FIR under multiple sections of Indian Penal Code, including assault or criminal force on a woman with intent to outrage her modesty, criminal intimidation, insulting modesty, and assault.
