After policemen dismayed over his usage of the slang thulla , a city-based lawyer has filed a criminal complaint against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly defaming Delhi Police and stoking “fear, resentment and anarchy” in the Capital.
The complaint was filed by lawyer-cum-RTI activist Subodh Jain at Jyoti Nagar police station on Tuesday morning. It also alleged “misuse of public funds” meant for development towards “misleading” the citizens of Delhi into resenting Delhi Police through “propaganda” over the murder of a woman by her neighbour and his brother here earlier this month.
A senior police officer said the complaint is being examined.
“Mr. Kejriwal has misused public funds to deliberately create and then widen the rift between the residents of Delhi and the police. Government ads are usually a medium to inform and educate the populace, not to mislead or scare them,” said Mr. Jain, who had recently filed a complaint against Mr. Kejriwal and his Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar for allegedly overlooking a mandatory tendering process in the setting up of the Delhi government anti-graft helpline — 1031 — with the Anti-Corruption Branch.
A government official said the advertisements in question had already been removed, but chose to attribute the move as “paying homage to former President APJ Abdul Kalam”.
In his complaint, Mr. Jain also chose to confront Mr. Kejriwal’s allegation that the victim of the Anand Parbat murder “was stabbed 32 times” with contention of a senior police officer at a press conference related to the incident, in which her post mortem report was quoted to claim that there were but eight injuries on her body, of which three were “minor injuries”.
He also questioned why Mr. Kejriwal had chosen to repeat, time and again, that the police deliberately took no action on successive complaints of harassment lodged by her against her murderer in light of “the fact that calls logged to this effect did not exist in the police control room records” as claimed by Delhi Police.
