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FIR Against Somnath Bharti For 'Instigating' Men To Misbehave With Woman

Darpan News Desk IANS, 21 Jul, 2016 12:21 PM
    An FIR has been registered against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti on charges of allegedly ‘instigating’ some men to misbehave with a woman earlier this month.
     
    The case has been registered at the Saket Police Station under IPC section 109- Punishment of abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence.
     
    The men he allegedly instigated have been booked under IPC sections 354- Assault or criminal force to woman, 323- Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt, 506- Punishment for criminal intimidation and 509- Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.
     
    Earlier, Bharti had been chargesheeted for attempting to kill his wife Lipika Mitra and inflicting cruelty on her in a domestic violence case.
     
    He also faces charges of molestation and assault and promoting enmity stemming from the January 2014 raid on the African residents of Khirki Extension in his constituency.

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