Delhi Police on Tuesday night arrested a man for allegedly throwing chili powder at chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, hours after suggesting that it may have fallen out of his hand and the attack may have been unintentional.
A case was registered against Anil Kumar against sections 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) of the Indian Penal Code.
This is how Delhi CM @ArvindKejriwal was attacked outside of his office at Delhi Secretariat.
Isn’t it a big security lapse?@DelhiPolice,who is accountable ? pic.twitter.com/5S89gqZhrA
— Aam Aadmi Party Delhi (@AAPDelhi) November 20, 2018
Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari said if the chilli powder attack on Kejriwal was not fabricated, then it is condemnable and sought a high-level inquiry into it.However, he said that the deputy chief minister’s statement equating this incident with that on the Signature Bridge during its inauguration on November 10 shows that it is only a drama. “If the incident is not fabricated, then it is certainly condemnable. But the statement of the deputy chief minister that this attack is like the attack at the Signature Bridge shows that this is only a drama.
“It seems that this attack has been carried out at the instance of the chief minister to divert attention from AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s attack on me and also to cover-up the sins of the AAP,” Tiwari
