Delhi: Court to pronounce sentence for two convicted AAP MLAs in 2015 police assault case

The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vaibhav Mehta of Rouse Avenue Court, on 7 September, convicted Tripathi and Jha for misbehaving with police personnel on February 20, 2015.

New Delhi: The Rouse Avenue Court will announce the sentence to two convicted Aam Aadmi Party MLAs in a 7-year-old case of allegedly attacking policemen along with a mob in the national capital. The court has found Akhilesh Pati Tripathi, MLA from Aam Aadmi Party's Model Town assembly seat, and Sanjeev Jha, MLA from Burari seat guilty under sections 147,149, 186, and 332 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vaibhav Mehta of Rouse Avenue Court, on 7 September, convicted Tripathi and Jha for misbehaving with police personnel on February 20, 2015. Police alleged that the MLAs instigated the crowd and joined them and attacked the police force.

Besides Tripathi and Jha, the other accused in the case including Balram Jha, Shyam Gopal Gupta, Kishore Kumar, Lalit Mishra, Jagdish Chandra Joshi, Narendra Singh Rawat, Neeraj Pathak, Raju Malik, Ashok Kumar, Ravi Prakash Jha, Ismail Islam, Manoj Kumar, Vijay Pratap Singh, Hira Devi, and Yashwant, have also been convicted in the case.

In the case, other accused Gora Chand Das, Vinod Singh, Atma Santosh, Roshan Kumar Mishra, Narendra Kumar, Narendra Yadav, Shashi Mohan, Basant Goswami, Prem Shankar, and Arun Jha have been freed by the court.