A Ugandan woman says she has identified Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti as the man who led the 'midnight raid' at her house last week, in a statement recorded in front of a magistrate on Tuesday, NDTV reports.  

"We were attacked on Wednesday night (January 15) by Indians who were led by Somnath Bharti. They are claiming we are blacks and we should leave their country. We were harassed, we were beaten, they had long sticks (sic) and they said we should leave their country or they'll kill us one by one. We don't know if being black is a crime," she told reporters after recording her statement.

The woman claimed that it was Mr Bharti's muffler that helped her identify him when he appearance on TV the next day. "I identified Somnath Bharti because he came in the night then the next day I saw him on television. He was still putting on what I saw last night."The Delhi Police had registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unknown people on Sunday, following a complaint by the Ugandan nationals. Mr Bharti was not named in the FIR.

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