{"id":33473,"date":"2014-05-27T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T06:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33473"},"modified":"2014-05-27T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T06:36:21","slug":"midnight-raid-african-women-court-seeks-final-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/midnight-raid-african-women-court-seeks-final-status","title":{"rendered":"Midnight raid on African women: Court seeks final status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/midnight-raid-african-women-court-seeks-final-status\/somnath-bharti\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33474\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33474\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/midnight-raid-african-women-court-seeks-final-status\/somnath-bharti\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Somnath-Bharti.jpg?fit=301%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"301,167\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Somnath Bharti\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Somnath-Bharti.jpg?fit=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Somnath-Bharti.jpg?fit=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33474 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Somnath-Bharti.jpg?resize=301%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Somnath Bharti\" width=\"301\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Somnath-Bharti.jpg?w=301&amp;ssl=1 301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Somnath-Bharti.jpg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Somnath-Bharti.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a>A court here on Monday issued notice to an Investigating Officer of Delhi Police, probing the former Delhi minister Somnath Bharti\u2019s purported raid on some African residents last year, to remain present \u201cin person\u201d with final status report after he failed to turn up today.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Magistrate Chetna Singh on January 29 had asked Delhi Police IO to file status report, while refusing to order lodging of a separate FIR on a plea by another African woman seeking registration of a case against unknown persons.<\/p>\n<p>However, it had asked Delhi Police that the Ugandan woman be made co-complainant in the first FIR lodged on January 19 as she was also \u201cthe victim\u201d of the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>When the IO did not turn up today with the status report, court directed him to remain present \u201cin person\u201d on August 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn information was received that the IO is busy in some emergency duty\u2026 IO is directed to remain present before the court on the next date. Notice be issued to IO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIO is also directed to file the final report on August 2, without any further delay,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n<p>The FIR was lodged on court\u2019s direction after a Ugandan woman had approached it on January 18, 2014 seeking to file a criminal case against unknown persons.<\/p>\n<p>Around five foreign women had recorded their statements before a magistrate in which they alleged that Bharti, the MLA from Malviya Nagar in south Delhi, had barged into their house along with his supporters on the intervening night of January 15-16, the court sources had said.<\/p>\n<p>In the earlier application filed before the court, the foreign national had alleged that she and the other women were subjected to a cavity search during their medical examination at AIIMS and the then minister and his people had asked them in public to give urine samples.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage on news channels had shown Bharti asking police officers to conduct the raid as he had received complaints of drugs and prostitution racket in that area.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the second African woman had approached the court seeking registration of a separate FIR alleging she was also molested by the group.<\/p>\n<p>On January 19, police had lodged an FIR against unknown persons under various sections of the IPC, including 153-A (promoting enmity between classes), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 354 (outraging modesty of women), 509 (uttering any word or making any gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 147 (rioting) at the Malviya Nagar police station.<br \/>\nThe second woman had claimed that the group had forcibly held her hands and took her out of the house along with her sisters who reside with her.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court here on Monday issued notice to an Investigating Officer of Delhi Police, probing the former Delhi minister Somnath Bharti\u2019s purported raid on some African residents last year, to remain present \u201cin person\u201d with final status report after he failed to turn up today. 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