AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya granted bail

June 29, 2016 04:17 pm | Updated September 16, 2016 04:59 pm IST

File photo of Sangam Vihar MLA Dinesh Mohaniya.

File photo of Sangam Vihar MLA Dinesh Mohaniya.

A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya who was arrested in a case of molestation.

The MLA was booked on June 23 for misbehaving with a group of women who had approached him with a complaint regarding water crisis in their locality. An FIR was lodged at South Delhi’s Neb Sarai Police Station.

He was arrested under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 A (sexual harassment), 354 B (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe) and 354 C (voyeurism) of the IPC.

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