Arvind Kejriwal Faces Police Case In Haryana Simply Hours Earlier than Delhi Goes To Polls – News18

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The event comes only a day earlier than Delhi goes to vote for Meeting elections, scheduled for Wednesday.
AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal | File Picture/PTI
Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal was booked on Tuesday over his assertion concerning air pollution within the Yamuna river. The event comes only a day earlier than Delhi goes to vote for Meeting elections, scheduled for Wednesday.
FIR was registered towards Kejriwal and different unknown members of his celebration at Shahabad Police Station in Kurukshetra in Haryana beneath sections 192, 196(1), 197(1), 248(a), and 299 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on this matter. The FIR was filed following the courtroom’s order in connection together with his statements concerning the river Yamuna water and his allegations towards the Haryana Authorities.
Earlier this week, the Haryana authorities filed a prison criticism towards the AAP chief in a Sonipat courtroom beneath the Catastrophe Administration Act.
Criticising Kejriwal’s remarks as “absurd and deceptive”, Haryana Income and Catastrophe Administration Minister Vipul Goel demanded that the Election Fee take strict cognisance of such “baseless statements” of the previous Delhi CM and accused him of participating in “low cost politics” forward of the elections within the nationwide capital.
Earlier within the day, Delhi Police registered the FIR towards AAP’s candidate from Kalkaji and Delhi Chief Minister Atishi for allegedly violating the mannequin code of conduct and obstructing public servants on obligation.
Yamuna Water ‘Poison’ Row
The political mercury within the capital rose after Kejriwal accused the BJP-ruled Haryana authorities of deliberately contaminating the water of the river Yamuna.
Kejriwal had alleged that the BJP authorities in Haryana had blended poison within the water provided to Delhi by means of the Yamuna. “Due to DJB (Delhi Jal Board) engineers, who caught it and stopped the water, it didn’t enter Delhi. If that water bought blended with consuming water, a mass genocide would have occurred,” Kejriwal mentioned.
Kejriwal was additionally issued two notices by the Election Fee over the matter on a criticism from the BJP.