Indo-asian news service
New Delhi, Sept 5: Sacked AAP minister Sandeep Kumar’s personal secretary was detained Monday for allegedly circulating a sex video clip involving the politician and a women.
A Delhi Police officer said that Praveen Kumar was picked up from Delhi Secretariat and taken into custody for questioning on his role in circulating the video.
“He will be scrutinised to ascertain his role,” the officer said.
Sandeep Kumar was sent to one-day police custody on Sunday, a day after he was arrested on charges of rape followed by the complaint of a woman who figured in a video with him in objectionable position. A court on Monday extended his police custody till September 8.
The former minister was arrested Saturday night after a woman approached Sultanpuri police station in north Delhi with a complaint of sexual harassment against the former Social Welfare and Women and Child Development Minister following which a case was filed.
He was booked under sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 328 (causing hurt by means of poison, with intent to commit an offence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
He was also charged under the Information Technology Act’s section 67A (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act in electronic form).
The woman had alleged in her complaint that she was sexually harassed by Kumar at his office-cum-residence in Sultanpuri area where she had gone to get her ration card made.
She had also alleged that Kumar had offered her a spiked cold drink following which she could not recall what exactly happened.
Kumar was sacked Wednesday after an alleged “sex video” involving him became viral. He alleged that he had been targeted because he was a Dalit.
Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday summoned Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh for “demeaning” women through one of the articles he wrote in defence of sacked Delhi government minister Sandeep Kumar. The commission has asked Ashutosh to appear before it September 9.
“The NCW feels that the language of the article was derogatory and demeaning towards women. He has portrayed the former minister’s act as something being done by many people, (and hence implying) what is the big deal about it. It is insulting towards women in general,” NCW chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam said.
