Kejriwal's achche din? AAP MLA 'misbehaves' with women, beats up 60-year-old man, detained

NEW DELHI: Sangam Vihar MLA Dinesh Mohaniya was today detained by the Delhi Police for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women who had gone to him to complain about water crisis.
Mohaniya, who is also vice chairman of Delhi Jal Board, was picked up by a police team while addressing a press conference at his office in Khanpur in South Delhi.

The MLA was booked on June 23 for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women who approached him with a complaint regarding water crisis in their locality.

He was booked on charges of causing hurt, criminal intimidation and using word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman, police said.

"An FIR has been registered under Sections 323, 506 and 509 of IPC against Mohaniya at Neb Sarai Police Station following a complaint by the group of women," Nupur Prasad, Additional DCP (South), said.

The complainants, who are residents of Sangam Vihar, alleged that Mohaniya and his accomplices "manhandled" and "threatened" them when they sought his help in the water crisis faced by them.

Mohania dismissed the charges against him as "baseless".

"I am ready to cooperate with the police investigation but the allegations against me are baseless," he said.

Another case has been registered against Mohaniya at Govindpuri Police Station for allegedly slapping a 60-year-old man in Tughlaquabad area yesterday.

In his complaint, the 60-year-old man told police that Mohaniya allegedly slapped him, and his men thrashed him, when he approached the MLA to complain about severe water crisis in his locality on Wednesday, the same day on which Mohaniya had allegedly misbehaved with a group of women who had approached him regarding the same problem, a senior police official said.

The FIR was registered under IPC Sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt, 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) against Mohaniya and his men at Govindpuri Police Station, the official said.