A city court extended the judicial custody of AAP MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal by 14 days on Thursday, arrested in the case of alleged assault on Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash. Metropolitan Magistrate Shefali Barnala Tandon sent the MLAs, who were produced before the court on expiry of their judicial remand, to Mandoli jail till March 22. Khan and Jarwal were on February 22 sent to 14 days judicial custody by the court which had termed the case as “highly sensitive”. The MLAs were arrested in connection with the alleged assault on the bureaucrat during a meeting at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on the night of February 19. While Jarwal, an MLA from Deoli, was arrested on February 20, Khan, an MLA from Okhla, was taken into custody the next day.

Source: dna March 09, 2018 01:04 UTC