Court discharges AAP MLA in assault case

New Delhi, January 19 : AAP MLA Jarnail Singh has been discharged by a Delhi court of charges of preventing an MCD engineer from demolishing an unauthorised building here, causing damage to state property and beating up a government official.
The sessions court set aside a magisterial court order taking cognisance on the charge sheet and framing charges against him on technical grounds, saying it was “bad and unsustainable”. “Since in this case, the necessary compliance of Section 195 CrPC has not been made, so the cognisance as well as the charge framed subsequently, vide impugned order, is bad and unsustainable.
“Resultantly, the petitioner is entitled for an order of discharge in his favour. The revisionist is discharged from the case,” Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Kumar-I said. Singh, AAP’s Tilak Nagar MLA, was chargesheeted by police for allegedly assaulting a South Delhi Municipal Corporation junior engineer, Athar Mustafa, and preventing him from carrying out his duty when the latter and his team had gone to demolish an illegal structure in West Delhi on April 28, 2015.