NEW DELHI, Jan 23: Aam Aadmi Party MLA and former Delhi minister Somnath Bharti was on Saturday sentenced to two years in jail by a court here in a 2016 case related to assaulting AIIMS security staff and causing damage to hospital property.
The mindset to cause damage to public property and infrastructure was an attack on the common man, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey said, as he rejected Bharti’s plea to release him on probation but granted him bail to enable filing of an appeal in a higher court.
The judge, who also imposed a fine of Rs one lakh on Bharti, said he was well educated and an MLA and, therefore, aware of the consequences of committing the offence.
New Delhi [India], January 23 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti has been sentenced two years imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs one lakh by a Delhi Court on Saturday for assaulting AIIMS security staff in 2016. The court granted him bail on the ground of filing an appeal against his conviction in Delhi High Court with a bond of Rs 20,000.
A special MP/MLA court in Delhi on Saturday sentenced Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti to two years imprisonment for assaulting AIIMS security staff in a 2016 case.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey also .
New Delhi, January 23
A court here on Saturday sentenced AAP MLA Somnath Bharti to two years in jail for assaulting the AIIMS security staff in a case registered in 2016.
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