Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA and Vice Chairman of Delhi Jal Board, Dinesh Mohaniya, was picked up for questioning by the police while he was addressing a press conference at his office on Saturday afternoon.
Mohaniya has been charged with roughing up a 60-year-old man. There is also another complaint against him stating that he misbehaved with a group of women protesting severe water crisis in Sangam Vihar area in the national capital.
Police have registered a case against Mohaniya under Section 506 (criminal intimidation), Section 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and Section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code at the Neb Sarai police station.
"Aap dekh sakte hain Police kaise gundagardi karke mujhe le jaa rahi hai (You can see the way I was arrested and the highhandedness of the Delhi Police)," he said while officers taking him to the police van.
Soon after his arrest, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hit out against the Modi government. He tweeted, "Modi declares emergency in Delhi. Arresting, raiding, terrorizing, filing false cases against all those whom Delhi elected."
"Dinesh mohaniya arrested from his press conference in front of all TV cameras. What msg does Modi want to give to everyone?," his another tweet reads.
AAP MLA Mohaniya during the press conference was tell the media that BJP was trying to divert issue from MM Khan murder case by leveling false charges against him. NDMC official MM Khan was allegedly shot dead for refusing to take bribe from Delhi hotelier Ramesh Kakkar. He was shot dead outside his house in Jamia Nagar on May 16 by two motorcycle-borne assailants.
Meanwhile, in the complaint, a 60-year-old man has told the police that the AAP MLA and his supporters roughed them up when they went to complain about irregular water supply.
