Haryana Court docket Asks Arvind Kejriwal To Seem On Feb 17 Over ‘Poison In Yamuna’ Comment – News18

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The court docket of Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Neha Goyal issued the discover to the previous Delhi chief minister on a grievance filed by an govt engineer of the Rai Water Providers Division, Sonipat

A court docket in Haryana’s Sonipat on Wednesday issued a discover to AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal over his declare that the BJP-ruled state was mixing “poison within the Yamuna” river, and requested him to look on February 17.

The court docket of Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Neha Goyal issued the discover to the previous Delhi chief minister on a grievance filed by an govt engineer of the Rai Water Providers Division, Sonipat.

“He’s directed to look in-person earlier than this court docket on the following date of listening to, if he has to say something within the matter. If he doesn’t seem earlier than this court docket on subsequent date of listening to, it’s deemed that he has nothing to say within the matter and additional proceedings shall be carried out in accordance with legislation,” mentioned the court docket, asking Kejriwal to look on February 17.

Earlier within the day, Haryana’s Income and Catastrophe Administration Minister Vipul Goel mentioned the state authorities will file a case in opposition to Kejriwal over his comment.

“Kejriwal has made an irresponsible assertion spreading panic among the many individuals of Delhi and Haryana. The Haryana authorities goes to get a case registered in opposition to him earlier than CJM Court docket in Sonipat below the Catastrophe Administration Act,” he informed reporters. The grievance was registered below Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) Part 223, Part 54 of the Catastrophe Administration Act, 2005 and Part 353 and 356 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

Below the provisions laid down below Part 223 of BNSS, a chance of being heard is to be given to the accused earlier than taking cognisance of offence by the Justice of the Peace.

Kejriwal had alleged on Monday that the “BJP individuals in Haryana are mixing poison within the water and sending it to Delhi” in order that they’ll blame the AAP if individuals die and take political profit. “Can something be extra disgusting than this?” “The poison that’s being combined within the water can’t even be cleaned in water remedy crops. For the protection of the individuals of Delhi, the water provide needs to be stopped in lots of areas,” Kejriwal had mentioned.

Prime BJP leaders together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Haryana ministers criticised Kejriwal for his remarks, which got here within the midst of the continuing election season in Delhi.

Haryana Income Minister Goel accused Kejriwal of talking “large lies”.

“What sort of water we give them (to Delhi), all our officers have checked the water being provided. Kejriwal has executed low cost politics by making such allegations on Haryana, prompting the state authorities to take authorized motion,” he mentioned.

He accused Kejriwal of spreading concern not solely among the many individuals of Delhi but additionally the individuals of Haryana along with his “false claims”.

He additionally accused the AAP dispensation in Delhi of utterly failing to scrub the Yamuna river.

Kejriwal is making baseless allegations in opposition to Haryana “simply to avoid wasting his political picture earlier than the (Delhi) elections”, Goel mentioned.

He mentioned the individuals of Haryana contemplate the Yamuna sacred, and spreading false propaganda is each an insult to Haryana and an try and mislead the individuals of Delhi.

He claimed that Kejriwal has an outdated behavior of overlaying up his failures by making false statements.

After Kejriwal made the allegations, the Aam Aadmi Get together doubled down on it.

On Monday, it accused the BJP authorities in Haryana of deliberately draining industrial waste into the Yamuna.

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi had additionally alleged that the BJP is “intentionally disrupting” Delhi’s water provide as a “historic loss” awaits the saffron get together within the February 5 meeting polls within the nationwide capital.

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