New Delhi: A Delhi court would commence in November the trial against AAP MLA Som Dutt, who has been charged with offences of rioting, wrongfully restraining and assaulting a man during the 2015 Assembly election campaign.
Metropolitan magistrate Ruby Neeraj Kumar on Thursday fixed November 2 for recording prosecution evidence, including deposition of complainant Sanjeev Rana, in the case.
The court had in May this year framed charges against Som Dutt, a legislator from Sadar Bazar constituency here, after he pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.
If proven guilty, the offences entail a maximum jail term of seven years. The court had framed charges of rioting, wrongful restraint, voluntarily causing gri-evous hurt and unlawful asse-mbly under the IPC against the MLA, who is out on bail.
An FIR was lodged against Som Dutt in 2015 at Gulabi Bagh police station on the allegation that the MLA and around 50 of his supporters, while campaigning in the locality, had come to the house of complainant Sanjeev Rana.
