NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal alleged that the closed circuit cameras at the chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s residence were being tampered with and his aide Bibhav Kumar had formatted his mobile phone.
In its remand note, police have said a portion of the footage from the CCTV cameras at the chief minister’s residence is showing blank. Maliwal took to social media to stress this point. Referring to the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder, she posted on X, “There was a time when he hit the streets to get justice for Nirbhaya. Twelve years later, they are hitting the streets to save an accused who deleted CCTV footage and formatted the phone. I wish they had tried so hard for Manish Sisodia. If he was here, maybe something so bad would not have happened to me.” Sisodia, Delhi’s former deputy chief minister, is in jail for over a year now in the Delhi liquor policy case.
Maliwal has alleged that Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar assaulted her on May 13 when she went to the CM’s residence to meet him. AAP has trashed her allegations.
The controversy, which has come a week ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, has become political with BJP questioning Kejriwal’s silence over the issue. Addressing a press conference, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said, “Arvind Kejriwal is protesting to save a person who has misbehaved with a woman at his residence… The same man earlier talked about women’s safety but today, Arvind Kejriwal is protesting to save the man who hit a woman…” “Now, the people as well as Delhi want to know what happened with Swati Maliwal at the residence of Arvind Kejriwal.”
