Somnath Bharti had approached the Delhi High Court on Wednesday challenging his conviction and a two-year sentence in a case of assault on AIIMS security staff.
AAP MLA Somnath Bharti was sent to jail on Tuesday after a Delhi trial court convicted him for assaulting an AIIMS staffer in 2016
The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint field by R S Rawat, Chief Security Officer, AIIMS.
Somnath Bharti was arrested for criminal intimidation and promoting enmity between groups, police said.
Justice Chander Shekhar allowed Bharti's plea to quash the criminal case after noting that Bharti and his wife Lipika Mitra are living happily together.
An AAP leader, on condition of anonymity told Outlook that the state leadership wouldn’t have made such a pact with Congress without the blessings of Somnath Bharti, who is in-charge of Kerala.
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal passed the directions after the AAP politician and others pleaded not guilty and said they will face trial.
Bharti has moved the application in a pending plea filed by his wife against the trial court's October 7, 2015 order granting bail to him in the domestic violence case lodged by her.
Delhi Police's Interrogation Report on Don, the Labrador. translated from dog-speak
Kejriwal ko politics aatii hai. His Aam Aadmi Party clearly wants to occupy the space of both rulers and rebels.
A group of concerned citizens write an open letter to the Delhi Chief Minister demanding that Somnath Bharti be removed from his position as Law Minister immediately
Women's groups write to the Delhi Chief Minister pointing out that it is " a great disservice to women’s rights to penalise Police officers who refuse to act in accordance with inflamed prejudices of the public or political leaders"
The bizarre drama yesterday, involving one of the Aam Aadmi Party ministers, Somnath Bharti, should make the AAP leadership sit up and think.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.