A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to four of the seven accused of barging into and ransacking the residence of Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, and attacking his staff.
Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh granted bail to Jagdish Chander, Sunil Kumar, Jai Kumar and Jaswant, on a personal bail bond of ₹25,000 each with one surety of like amount.
Staff assaulted
The court sent the other accused — Parshu Ram, Pardeep Kumar and Om Parkash — to judicial custody till May 17. The accused persons had allegedly barged into the official residence of Mr. Tiwari in the high-security Lutyens’ Zone in the early hours of this past Monday. They had allegedly assaulted two of his staff members before ransacking the house.
According to the police, 42-year-old Jagdish works as a cook at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and is the elder brother of Jai Kumar and Jaswant. According to the police, the car in which Jai Kumar was travelling had bumped into a vehicle driven by one of Mr. Tiwari's staffers just outside his house.
He then called his friends, who allegedly arrived armed with rods and sticks, entered the MP's residence and thrashed his staff, the police said.
