Sacked AAP Minister Sandeep Kumar, who was earlier on Saturday booked for rape following the complaint by a woman who figured in a video with him, has been arrested, police said.
Sandeep Kumar has been arrested, said Deputy Commissioner of Police Vikramjit Singh.
The woman had approached Sultanpuri police station in north Delhi with a complaint of sexual harassment against the former minister following which a case was filed, a police officer told IANS.
Sandeep Kumar was charged under Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 328 (causing hurt by means of poison, etc. with intent to commit an offence) of the Indian Penal Code, the officer said.
He was also booked under the Information Technology Act's Section 67A (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act in electronic form), the officer added.
The police officer said that the woman alleged in her complaint that she was sexually harassed by Sandeep Kumar, who was Social Welfare and Women and Child Development Minister, at his office where she had gone to get her ration card made.
She also alleged that he had offered her a spiked cold drink following which she could not recall what exactly happened with her and how she had acted.
"The complainant said that he (Kumar) made a video and circulated it. He had assured her that he would provide jobs to her children," the officer told IANS.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday recommended "exemplary" punishment to Sandeep Kumar while the AAP suspended him from the party's primary membership. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held on Saturday morning.
Sandeep Kumar was sacked on Wednesday over an alleged "sex video" involving him. On Thursday, he defended himself, saying he had resigned on his own and alleged that he had been targeted because he was a Dalit.
SEX CD ROW: VALMIKI COMMUNITY DEMANDS KEJRIWAL’S RESIGNATION
Extremely upset over the sex CD row involving sacked AAP minister Sandeep Kumar, the Valmiki community staged a protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence here on Saturday demanding that he should step down on moral grounds as his party ministers are indulging in shameful acts defaming the Dalit community.
The protesters, who marched from St. Xavier school to Kejriwal’s residence in the Civil lines area, raised slogans against the Chief Minister as well as the AAP Government in Delhi.
“The Dalit community has never been involved in things like these and Sandeep Kumar indulged in immoral acts despite being the member of our community. We are here to protest against the corrupt ministers of the Delhi Government,” said one of the protesters.
“Kejriwal should resign on the basis of ethics because his ministers are doing shameful acts and defaming the Dalit community. When ministers are indulging in such indecent acts then what impression will it leave in the eyes of the people,” he added.
Kumar, who was sacked as Delhi minister earlier this week over an objectionable video and photographs, was on Saturday suspended from the party’s primary membership.
On Wednesday, Kejriwal announced the decision to sack Kumar after receiving an objectionable CD.
Kejriwal said that he would prefer to forfeit his party but never tolerate corruption and wrongful activities, as the AAP does not believe in hiding flaws of its members.
Commenting on Kumar’s “misdeeds”, Kejriwal said that his former Cabinet colleague has betrayed the party and the people of Delhi.
Kumar, however, denied the allegations on Thursday and played the Dalit card while claiming that the video was fabricated.
