AAP MLA Somnath Bharti may be arrested after wife files FIR

September 10, 2015 11:07

JUST IN: An FIR has been lodged against AAP MLA and former law minister Somnath Bharti on the basis of his wife's complaint at the Dwarka police station.

Bharti's wife had, in June this year, approached the Delhi Commission for Women charging him with unleashing dogs on her when she was pregnant and subjecting her to physical and mental torture.

In her complaint filed with the DCW, Lipika also alleged that he had forced her to go for an abortion when she became pregnant for the third time and that she once tried to slit her wrist due to unrelenting torture.

She also sought police protection for herself and her two small children -- a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son.

A lawyer by profession, Bharti, who was law minister during AAP's first stint of 49-day government, denied the allegations as "totally baseless".

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