Aam Aadmi Party MLA Rituraj Govind has been arrested in Outer Delhi’s Kirari area before Chhath Puja, making him the 15th party legislator to be apprehended.
Confirming the arrest, DCP (Outer) M.N. Tiwari said, “He was arrested on Saturday night on charges of apprehension of breach of peace in the area before Chhath Pooja.”
The police said that Section 144 of the CrPC (prohibiting assembly of more than four people) was imposed in the ghat area, which is a heritage property, from Saturday morning in view of the Chhath Puja and the MLA had allegedly violated the order.
Mr Govind said on Saturday that he was trying to build a ghat at Nithari Talaab near the expressway on the occasion of Chhath along the river bank in Kirari which is his constituency.
However, the Delhi BJP on Sunday alleged that Mr Govind was trying to illegally occupy gram sabha land. Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay claimed that the MLA and AAP workers were “responsible for the dispute at Kirari as instead of setting up a temporary ghat, they tried to illegally occupy the land.”
