Swati Maliwal assault case: SIT will submit its report to senior officials after conducting its investigation
Delhi Police has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the Swati Maliwal case, a week after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s former personal secretary Bibhav Kumar of assaulting her, police officials said.
The SIT is headed by North Delhi’s Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Anjitha Chepyala who has been handling the investigation. Three Inspector-rank officers are also included in the SIT, which includes the officer of Civil Lines Police Station where the case was registered.
The SIT will submit its report to senior officials after conducting its investigation, police said.
Earlier, the Delhi Police took Bibhav Kumar to Arvind Kejriwal’s residence where Kumar had allegedly assaulted Maliwal, to find out details about the sequence of events that took place on the morning of May 13.
The police noted down the answers to all their questions sequence-wise, mapped them, and took photographs of the crime scene where the hour-long crime took place, officials said.
Sources from the Delhi Police said that since the crime scene has now been recreated by taking both the accused and the victim to the spot, the sequence of events narrated by both of them is now being analyzed.
The police seized the DVR of Kejriwal’s CCTV footage on Sunday evening and are trying to retrieve the blank portion of the footage.
Maliwal, in her complaint, alleged that Bibhav “slapped” her “at least seven to eight times” while she “continued screaming” and “brutally dragged” her while “kicking” her in her “chest, stomach, and pelvis area.”
Bibhav was produced before Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court, which remanded him in police custody for five days.
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Another 10 years the case will keep dragging….only to be released by Judges….