New Delhi: Delhi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) President Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday dismissed the allegations accusing him of allegedly revealing the identity of a minor sexual assault victim. He claimed that the case was registered against him for revealing the name of the school where the incident took place, since the institution had trustees with “links to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)”.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday had registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the AAP leader.
Speaking to IANS, Bharadwaj clarified saying: “I have not taken the victim’s name, nor that of her parents. I don’t even know their names. Cases are being lodged against me for revealing the name of the school.”
He also claimed that three cases have been registered against him.
“All because we (AAP) are raising the issue of the rape of a three-year-old girl. The case in which the DCP summons the girl’s parents and harasses them. The case in which the SHO harasses the girl’s parents from morning till evening. The case in which the girl identified the perpetrators,” Bharadwaj said.
Referring to the main accused, a 57-year-old caretaker, and a female class teacher, the AAP leader said: “Both the accused were granted bail within five days.”
Bharadwaj also alleged, saying: “Several BJP leaders have their known people as trustees in the board of the concerned ‘S. S. Mota Singh School’. Why has this been done? What do they have to do with this school?”
“They (BJP) want to protect the honour of the school so that its reputation does not gets tarnished, raising questions over the future of the thousands of students enrolled there,” he added.
Questioning about the safety of those studying in that school, the AAP leader said: “Has the government or the police thought anything about them.”
The case was related to an incident in which a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered inside a crematorium in 2021 in the Delhi Cantonment area.
Responding to the crime, Bharadwaj on the social media platform X said: “Today, the youngest ‘cockroach’ in the country is a mere three-year-old girl. She was raped at a school in Janakpuri. The accused is a 57-year-old senior official of the school.”
(IANS)
