Delhi High Court extends AAP MLAs’ custody by 14 days

A city court extended the judicial custody of AAP MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal by 14 days on Thursday, arrested in the case of alleged assault on Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash.

Metropolitan Magistrate Shefali Barnala Tandon sent the MLAs, who were produced before the court on expiry of their judicial remand, to Mandoli jail till March 22. According to court sources, the matter would next be heard in a Patiala House Courts, following the Delhi High Court order designating two special courts in the Patiala House Courts complex to deal with criminal cases against elected members of Parliament and legislative assemblies.

Khan and Jarwal were on February 22 sent to 14 days judicial custody by the court which had termed the case as “highly sensitive”. Their bail pleas were also dismissed the next day with the court observing that the circumstances prima facie point to a “premeditated criminal conspiracy”.

The MLAs were arrested in connection with the alleged assault on the bureaucrat during a meeting at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on the night of February 19.

While Jarwal, an MLA from Deoli, was arrested on February 20, Khan, an MLA from Okhla, was taken into custody the next day.