'If Manish Sisodia Had Been Here...': Swati Maliwal Slams AAP Over Kejriwal's Protest March

Swati Maliwal Assault Case: Former DCW chief said that those who took to the streets for justice for the Delhi gangrape victim are now doing so to protect the accused.

Aam Aadmi Party MP Swati Maliwal. ( Image Source :PTI )

Swati Maliwal Assault Case: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Swati Maliwal on Sunday lashed out at the AAP over its protest led by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal against the arrest of the Delhi CM's aide and former PA Bibhav Kumar. The former DCW chief said that those who took to the streets for justice for the Delhi gangrape victim are now doing so to protect the accused. Maliwal said that if AAP leader Manish Sisodia had been there, he would not have let anything bad happen to her. 

"There was a time when we all came out on the streets to get justice for Nirbhaya. Today, after 12 years, we are out on the streets to save the accused who made the CCTV footage disappear and formatted the phone? I Wish they had used this much force for Manish Sisodia ji. If he had been here, maybe this bad thing wouldn't have happened to me!," Maliwal said in a post on X.

किसी दौर में हम सब निर्भया को इंसाफ़ दिलाने के लिए सड़क पर निकलते थे, आज 12 साल बाद सड़क पर निकले हैं ऐसे आरोपी को बचाने के लिए जिसने CCTV फुटेज ग़ायब किए और Phone format किया?

काश इतना ज़ोर मनीष सिसोदिया जी के लिए लगाया होता। वो यहाँ होते तो शायद मेरे साथ इतना बुरा नहीं होता! pic.twitter.com/kXAAMLgPcg

— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) May 19, 2024

On Saturday, Maliwal claimed that the CCTV footage of the May 13 incident where she was allegedly assaulted at CM Kejriwal's residence has "disappeared" and edited videos were being released. Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar was picked up at the CM's residence and arrested in connection with the assault case on Saturday.

"First I was thrashed brutally by Bibhav. He slapped and kicked me. When I freed myself and called 112, he went outside, called security personnel and started making a video. I was shouting and telling the security that Bibhav has thrashed me brutally," Maliwal claimed.

"That long portion of the video has been edited. Only a 50-second video was released when I was fed up of telling the security. "Now the phone has been formatted and the full video deleted? The CCTV footage has also disappeared. This is the height of conspiracy," she said in a post on X in Hindi.

Kumar was on Saturday produced before a magisterial court here, with police contending that his custody was necessary for questioning him about the reason behind the alleged assault on Maliwal. They said Kumar did not provide the password of his mobile phone to the investigating agency and had also informed that his phone had been formatted in Mumbai due to some malfunctioning in the device.

The police said before being formatted, the data of a mobile phone had to be cloned, and Kumar was required to be taken to Mumbai to retrieve the data. The presence of the accused was also needed when an expert accesses his mobile-phone, they said.