BJP legislator O.P. Sharma continued to roam free through Wednesday, two days after he was caught on camera assaulting a CPI activist.
The closest the Delhi Police came to taking any action against him was issuing a summons to him along with the three lawyers who were allegedly involved in an assault on journalists and students inside the Patiala House around the same time.
“Yes, he (Sharma) has also been summoned,” said B.S. Bassi while speaking to the media on Wednesday. The MLA’s name continued to remain absent from the FIR registered in this case by the police who took a suo motu cognisance of the incident.
Bassi on Tuesday had defended the police’s decision not to name Sharma in the FIR, claiming that the MLA himself was hurt in the incident that he continued to call a “scuffle” despite all the visuals of him brutally assaulting the CPI activist.
Sharma, meanwhile, was seen speaking to the media on Wednesday, telling a channel he had already spoken his mind on the episode and would speak more on it when the time came.
The legislator, who has so far claimed that he hit the CPI activist Ameeque Jamai in self-defence, had even gone on to say that he would shoot anyone who would hit him.
Police’s lack of any strict action against the MLA has come for sharp criticism from many quarters.
The closest the Delhi Police came to taking any action against him was issuing summons
