AAP lawmaker arrested for thrashing DJB engineer

Posted on 24th May 2014 12:33 pm by admin

New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) An AAP legislator was arrested Friday for thrashing a junior engineer of Delhi Jal Board, police said. The lawmaker dismissed the allegations.<br /><br />"We have arrested Prakash Jarwal, MLA from Deoli in south Delhi, for assaulting the DJB engineer. The MLA has been booked under several sections of the Indian Penal Code," said a police official.<br /><br />On Thursday, DJB registered an FIR against the Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker for assaulting its junior engineer at Sangam Vihar area where he was supervising work of drilling of a tube-well.<br /><br />The DJB engineer claimed that he was asked by one of the legislator's associates over phone to stop the work as it had to be inaugurated by Jarwal.<br /><br />However, the engineer carried on with the work as stopping it would have "indefinitely delayed" the boring of the tubewell.<br /><br />"The engineer also explained the matter to the MLA when he reached the spot, but was allegedly assaulted by him," said the police official citing the engineer's complaint.<br /><br />Jarwal, however, refuted the allegations and claimed that the DJB engineer had halted the work and also abused him when he questioned about it.

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