Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal said on Wednesday that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal was “relieved” that Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar, who she accused of assaulting her, was released on bail.
On Tuesday, Sunita Kejriwal had shared a picture of Bibhav Kumar on X and said in Hindi that it was “a day of relief”.
Swati Maliwal had alleged that Kumar assaulted her when she visited the Chief Minister’s residence on May 13. She had filed a complaint against Kejriwal’s aide, following which he was arrested on May 18. However, Kumar was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Monday.
During the hearing, the court had said that Kumar had been in judicial custody for 100 days and a chargesheet had been filed.
“Injuries (to Maliwal) are simple. It’s a case for bail. You should not oppose. You can’t keep a person in jail in such a case,” it had said.
Maliwal took a dig at Sunita Kejriwal, and said in a post on X in Hindi, “The Chief Minister’s wife, who was at home when I was being beaten up, is feeling very ‘relieved’. (She is feeling) Relieved because the man who beat me and misbehaved with me in his house has been released on bail.”
She further said in the post that it was a “clear message” to everyone that they should “assault women”, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would first troll the survivor, “completely ruin the survivor” and then hire “an army of the country’s most expensive lawyers” to save the assaulter.
“How can we expect respect for our sisters and daughters from those who find solace in seeing such people? God is watching everything, justice will be done,” she added in the post.
On Tuesday, Maliwal had shared a picture from the Mahabharata, which showed the infamous scene of Draupadi’s disrobing.
Maliwal, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the AAP, has been at loggerheads with the party since the incident.
Meanwhile, the AAP had discredited the incident and Delhi Minister Atishi had called her “BJP’s pawn”.
