A Delhi court on Friday sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar to judicial cuꦛstody for 14 days for allegedly assaulted AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal🧸 at the chief minister's official reidence on May 13.
The court observed that the investigation was still at a nascent stage and completing iꦍt would require time.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Goyal said, "I feel that investigation is at nascent stage and would require time to complete the investigation. In view of the submissions made by both the parties and facts of the case, accused Bibhav Kumar be remanded to judicial custody for 14 days and be produced on Junཧe 14."
Additional Public Prosecutor ♛Atul Srivas🥂tava submitted an application seeking judicial custody for Kumar for conducting a "proper investigation" and to prevent the accused from tampering with evidence or making any threat or inducement to the witnesses.
Kaꦇran Sharma, the counsel for Kumar, opposed the Delhi Police's plea.
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court has reserved its order on ma𓆏intainability of Kumar's plea challenging his arrest.
Earlier on Monday, Kumar's bail plea was dismissed by a sessions court which said there appeared to be no "pre-meditꦬation" by Maliwal in lodging the FIR and that her allegations could not be "swiped away".
Kumar was arrested on May 18. He was sent to police custody for five days the same day by a magisterial court which observed that his anticipa⭕tory bail plea had become inf♉ructuous because of his arrest.
He was sent t🌼o ♔four-day judicial custody last Friday.
The FIR against Kumar was registered on May 16 under various Indian Penal Code provisions, including for criminal i൲ntimidation, assault or criminal force on a woman with the intent to disrobe her an꧙d attempt to commit culpable homicide.
