AAP MLA arrested for trying to murder woman

Khan was first detained for questioning and then arrested, a day after he alleged in a press conference that the woman was ‘pressurised’ by police into giving a false statement against him. 

“On July 22, the woman had recorded her statement before the magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC. She had alleged while she was returning from the legislator’s residence, a vehicle tried mowing her down and Amanatullah was sitting in it,” said Joint Commission of Police, Southeast Range, RP Upadhyay. Prior to that, she had on July 19 filed a complaint with police alleging that at the AAP MLA’s residence in Jamia Nagar, a youth had on July 10 abused her and threatened that she would be killed if she did not stop politicising the matter. An FIR was subsequently registered in this regard. 

Reacting to Khan’s arrest, Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, “Modi ji arrests one more AAP MLA.” Further, he tweeted in Hindi, “Anandiben in Gujarat sends Dalits and Patidars to jails in false cases, Modiji sends Delhiites to jails in false cases. Delhi and Gujarat will now fight together”. 

AAP had on Saturday rubbished the allegation levelled against the MLA, claiming Delhi police had ‘pressurised’ the woman into giving a false statement against Khan. At a news conference, the party played a video, in which the woman is purportedly seen telling someone ‘that the SHO of the Jamia Nagar police station asked her to add rape and murder charges in the FIR’.