New Delhi: Even though Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti is in police custody, the former Delhi law minister is not cooperating in the investigations in the case against him, say sources. Sources also said that the police will be adding new names to the FIR including Bharti's aide Bane Singh. He was said to be at Bane's home in Agra last week when he was absconding.
Bharti was on the run soon after police registered a first information report against him on September 10. He made a sudden appearance in the wee hours on September 16 at a city police station after the High Court granted him interim protection.
On September 22, the Delhi court rejected his anticipatory bail and thereafter he was avoiding arrest. A magistrate court on September 14 issued non-bailable warrant against Bharti.
After the warrant Bharti was on the run, Special Public Prosecutor Shailendra Babbar told Metropolitan Magistrate Manika while seeking his police custody.
Bharti, who surrendered to police on Monday evening, was named in an FIR following a June 10 complaint by his wife, who said he had been abusing her since their marriage in 2010.
She claimed Bharti used to beat and torture her and once even tried to kill her.
Bharti has been booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code relating to attempt to murder, cruelty towards wife, voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapon, criminal breach of trust, attempt to cause miscarriage without woman's consent, cheating and criminal intimidation.
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