AAP: Police has no authority in Assembly issues

New Delhi: The AAP on Friday said that police has no jurisdiction to register an FIR on any incident within the Assembly premises and termed the action against three of its MLAs on charges of assaulting a woman as a “conspiracy” against them.

AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said that according to the government of NCT of Delhi Act, the Delhi Assembly, its committees and members enjoy the same privileges as the Lok Sabha and the police has to take permission from the Speaker of the House before taking action against any of its members.

In the AAP’s case, Mr Bharadwaj said the police illegally registered the FIR even without taking permission from the Assembly Speaker. “The police has no jurisdiction to register FIR on any matter happened within the Assembly premises, but still they registered the complaint.”

He said with this move, the Delhi police has shown it’s dual character as the same police had denied registering a complaint last year when AAP councillor Rajesh Kumar was beaten up in a mock session of civic bodies at Ramlila Maidan.

“The police had then cited necessity to take the nod from the mayor, but here they don’t take permission from the Speaker. This FIR is a conspiracy against the AAP leaders,” Mr Bharadwaj said.

Mr Bharadwaj added that Simranjit Kaur Bedi, who registered a complaint against the three AAP MLAs, was provided entry on June 28 on the recommendation from the office of Vijender Gupta even when he was not in the country and did not attend the session.