Delhi HC suspends 2-year jail term of Somnath Bharti in assault case
The Delhi High Court Wednesday suspended the two-year jail term of AAP MLA Somnath Bharti in a case of assault on AIIMS safety employees. Justice Suresh Kait additionally stayed Bharti’s conviction in the case and sought response of the Delhi authorities on his plea difficult his conviction and the sentence.
The excessive court docket listed the matter for additional listening to in May 20.
Bharti was taken into custody and despatched to jail on Tuesday after pronouncement of the decision by a trial court docket right here.
In his plea earlier than the excessive court docket, he sought setting apart of the trial court docket’s order and acquitting him of all prices.
According to the prosecution, on September 9, 2016, Bharti, together with practically 300 others, introduced down the fence of a boundary wall on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) right here with a JCB operator.
A Justice of the Peace had in January sentenced him to 2 years in jail.
The punishment was upheld by a periods choose on Tuesday.
