Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash has sustained injuries on the face as per a medical report — which has now been handed over to the Delhi Police — prepared after examination of the patient according to doctors at Aruna Asaf Ali Government Hospital.
Delhi’s top bureaucrat had gone to the hospital at 9 p.m. on February 20 with complaint of “painful neck movement, pain behind both ears and pain behind the right eye.”
His medical record shows that doctors found “tenderness and mild swelling behind both ears, bruise over lower lip (right side). No other form of injury was detected. The injury is simple.” Mr. Prakash has been given pain killers and other medicines as per doctor’s order.
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Mr. Prakash had claimed that he was assaulted by two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmakers in presence of the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after being called for a meeting at midnight earlier this week.
He has also filed an FIR. The ruling party, however, maintained that Anshu Prakash was lying about the assault.
The police, which has registered cross-cases filed by the AAP lawmakers and the top bureaucrat, later detained AAP lawmaker Prakash Jarwal for questioning about the alleged assault.
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In his complaint, Anshu Prakash says “the assault was premeditated and in conspiracy of all present... None of the persons present in the room made any effort to save me.”
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked for a report. According to the chief secretary, he was summoned to Mr. Kejriwal’s home at midnight to discuss delays in the release of TV ads on three years of AAP.