CM Arvind Kejriwal nods for police probe in Chief Secretary Assault Case, demands videographing of proceedings

New Delhi, May 18: The Delhi Secretary assault case has seen many twist and turns, the new in the row is that the Delhi police asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to step in the probe. While Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday told Delhi Police that he is willing to join police probe into the alleged assault of Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash, but insisted that the recording of his statements be video graphed.

 

In a letter addressed to Station House Officer of Civil Lines Police Station, the Chief Minister said he would be available at his camp office at 5 pm on Friday. The city police had on Wednesday sent him a notice to join the investigation in the case at 11 am on Friday.

Kejriwal also demanded that he be allowed to video record the proceedings.

"I wish to video record the entire proceedings during the investigation. If you have any objection, I would request you to kindly make arrangements at your end to video record the same and in such case, a copy of the recording be provided after the conclusion of my questioning (sic)," he said in the letter.

A senior officer aware of to the probe said a five to six member police team led by additional deputy commissioner of police (North) Harendra Singh will visit the CM office on Friday. "The proceedings will be video recorded, but the chief minister won't be allowed to video record the investigation. Also, it will be the police's decision to share the recording with him. The video proceedings of the questioning of AAP MLAs and others in the case were also recorded earlier," he said.

Elaborating further, the officer said the AAP supremo will be questioned on a range of points like the reason for holding late night meetings, whether such meetings have earlier been held with the Delhi government officials etc. The police might also summon his deputy Manish Sisodia in the case as he was present when the alleged incident took place.

Anshu Prakash was allegedly assaulted during a meeting at Kejriwal's official residence on February 19.

The police have already questioned 11 AAP MLAs present at the chief minister's residence for the meeting. Two of the party MLAs Amantullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal were arrested in the case.

Kejriwal, his former advisor VK Jain and deputy chief minister Sisodia were also present in the meeting. Jain was also questioned in the case. On February 23, a police team had examined the CCTV system installed at the chief minister's residence in the Civil Lines area and seized the hard disk.