NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Friday told the High Court here that it had taken a suo motu cognisance of the alleged attack outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence and registered an FIR.
Last Wednesday, members of the BJP youth wing had allegedly vandalised property outside the residence of Kejriwal, also the Aam Aadmi Party national convener, during a protest against his remarks on the film ‘The Kashmir Files’.
Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, appearing for Delhi Police and the central government, said all steps were being taken to address the concerns and all the evidence, including the CCTV footage from cameras around the chief minister’s residence, as well as the arterial roads, would be preserved.
He said eight people had already been arrested and investigation was under way.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Navin Chawla, which was hearing a petition by AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj, granted time to Delhi Police to file its status report on the ongoing investigation in a sealed cover.
Bhardwaj, in his petition through advocate Bharat Gupta, has asked for a Special Investigation Team to probe the alleged attack and argued that the vandalisation appeared to have been carried out with Delhi Police’s ‘tacit complicity’.