A senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Dilip Pandey has alleged that a Delhi Police van tried to run him over while he was briefing journalists outside a police station in the capital on Tuesday night.
Senior leaders of Delhi’s ruling party are meeting this morning at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence to discuss the alleged incident.
“I am shocked that Delhi Police is trying to eliminate me,” Mr Pandey told news agency IANS, adding, “I was luckily pushed away by one of the volunteers.”
Mr Pandey, who is AAP’s national convenor, also tweeted:
Shockd to see sad state of #DelhiPolice. A PoliceBus tried to run ovr-kill me frm behnd whle i was talkng to media. Someone pushed-saved me!
– Dilip K. Pandey (@dilipkpandey) July 21, 2015
“A police van tried to run over AAP leader Dilip Pandey while he was talking to the media at Rajendra Nagar Police Station,” the party said in a Facebook post.
The AAP leader was at the Rajinder Nagar police station talking to journalists about women volunteers of his party being detained after protests over a teen’s murder turned violent. The alleged incident he said, happened at about 10:30 pm.
Mr Pandey said that he has filed a written complaint with Rajinder Nagar police. “Hopefully they will file an FIR in the
case,” he said.
The Delhi Police is yet to respond to Mr Pandey’s allegations.
AAP workers and volunteers clashed with policeman on Tuesday while protesting in Anand Parbat in West Delhi, where a 19-year-old was brutally stabbed to death.
Mr Kejriwal met Delhi Police Chief BS Bassi on Monday and sought information on pending cases of crimes against women, but sources in his party alleged that the police chief refused to furnish these details.
Mr Bassi told reporters later that the police is investigating the case and could not reveal any information. The Delhi Police reports to the Centre through Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor.
Mr Kejriwal has in an open letter asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to either spare some time for law and order in the capital, or turn over the control of Delhi Police to him.
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