Woman who threw ink at Kejriwal sent to one-day police custody

A Delhi court on Monday sent a woman, accused of throwing ink at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a rally in New Delhi following the completion of government’s odd-even experiment, to one-day police custody.

Metropolitan Magistrate Sunil Kumar remanded Bhavna Arora to police custody till Tuesday after the investigating agency said that her custodial interrogation was required to unearth the truth behind the incident.

In closed-door proceedings, the police told the court that 26-year-old Arora’s custody was required to investigate whether there were other persons involved in the matter who conspired with her.

According to court sources, police said the real motive behind the act was needed to be ascertained and it was required to find out whether the woman was involved in some other cases as well.

The advocate appearing for Arora, however, opposed the police’s custody plea and sought bail for the accused.

The counsel claimed that the offence committed by Arora was not serious and being a woman, she should be released.

Arora had thrown ink on Kejriwal when he was addressing a ‘thanksgiving’ rally at Chhatrasal Stadium on Sunday following the “success” of his government’s odd-even

experiment, prompting angry reactions from the Aam Aadmi Party government which termed the incident as a part of “Bharatiya Janata Party conspiracy”.

The woman, who claimed to be a member of the Punjab unit of Aam Aadmi Sena, a splinter group of Delhi’s ruling AAP, was later whisked away by police and questioned at the ModelTown police station.

The woman has claimed that she has “proof in the form of a CD” that “these people have committed CNG scam”.

The woman, a resident of Rama Vihar in outer Delhi’s Rohini sub-city, was booked for alleged offences under sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of

public functions) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Indian Penal Code.