{"id":57582,"date":"2019-09-17T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=57582"},"modified":"2019-09-17T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:56:10","slug":"the-delhi-high-court-grants-bail-to-aap-mla-som-dutt-in-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/the-delhi-high-court-grants-bail-to-aap-mla-som-dutt-in-assault-case","title":{"rendered":"The Delhi High Court grants bail to AAP MLA Som Dutt in assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/AAP-MLA-Som-Dutt.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-attachment-id=\"57583\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/the-delhi-high-court-grants-bail-to-aap-mla-som-dutt-in-assault-case\/aap-mla-som-dutt\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/AAP-MLA-Som-Dutt.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AAP MLA Som Dutt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/AAP-MLA-Som-Dutt.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57583\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/AAP-MLA-Som-Dutt.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/AAP-MLA-Som-Dutt.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/AAP-MLA-Som-Dutt.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court on Monday granted bail to AAP MLA Som Dutt, who was recently taken into custody to serve a six-month jail term for assaulting a man with a baseball bat during campaigning for 2015 Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Suresh Kait also sought response of the State on the plea of Dutt, lodged in Rohini jail here, challenging the trial court&#8217;s verdict convicting and sentencing him in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The high court listed the matter for hearing on October 30.<\/p>\n<p>Senior advocate Vikas Pahwa and lawyer R Arunadhri Iyer contended that the entire case against the legislator is &#8220;false&#8221; and there are &#8220;discrepancies&#8221; in the medical record of the man who had claimed that he was assaulted by the MLA.<\/p>\n<p>A sessions court had on September 12 dismissed the AAP leader&#8217;s plea challenging a magisterial court&#8217;s order convicting and sentencing him in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions court had said there was no sufficient ground to interfere with the order of the magisterial court.<\/p>\n<p>The magisterial court had on July 4 sentenced Dutt to a six-month jail term and also imposed a fine of Rs two lakh on him.<\/p>\n<p>He is a public representative and has committed the offence knowing its gravity and consequences, the trial court had said.<\/p>\n<p>It had noted that the incident did not take place on the spur of the moment but was a premeditated assault by a baseball bat.<\/p>\n<p>The court had granted him bail on a personal bond and surety of Rs 10,000 till August 5, 2019 for appealing against the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Dutt, the legislator from the Sadar Bazar constituency, was held guilty under sections 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt without provocation), 341 (wrongful restraint), 147 (rioting) and 149 (unlawful assembly ) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).<\/p>\n<p>The trial court while convicting him had said there was no doubt that on January 10, 2015 at around 8 pm, Som Dutt, along with his 50 supporters, went to flat No. 13 where the complainant was present.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant was beaten and assaulted by the accused and his associates due to which he suffered grievous injury, it had said.<\/p>\n<p>An FIR was lodged against Dutt in 2015 at the Gulabi Bagh police station in north Delhi that he had allegedly hit the complainant on his legs with a baseball bat and his supporters dragged him out on the road and started beating him, causing grievous injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Monday granted bail to AAP MLA Som Dutt, who was recently taken into custody to serve a six-month jail term for assaulting a man with a baseball bat during campaigning for 2015 Assembly elections. 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