Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been acquitted by a Delhi court. The case was registered against the then Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash during a meeting on February 19, 2018 at the official residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. A Delhi court has acquitted Kejriwal along with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and nine Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs. The court also ordered that Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal be charged in the case. In a press conference after the order was issued, Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia said the case was a conspiracy by the Delhi Police against Kejriwal.
The court ruled that all the allegations were baseless and false. We were told on the first day that these allegations were false. What happened against Kejriwal was a conspiracy, ”Sisodia said.He said the Delhi Police had hatched the conspiracy on the instructions of Prime Minister Modi and the BJP. Sisodia said Kejriwal was “the most popular chief minister in the country” and that the BJP and Modi should apologize to him.The chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police claimed that the attack was intentional. Investigators also alleged that AAP leaders had cut off CCTVs to prevent the incident from being recorded.
