Sacked AAP Minister Sandeep Kumar Will Be In Police Lock-Up For 3 Days

HANGZHOU, CHINA: North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday in a defiant reminder of the risks to global security, as world leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama gathered at a G20 summit in China for the second day.

North Korea has tested missiles at sensitive times in the past to draw attention to its military might. But Monday's launch risks embarrassing its main ally Beijing, which has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure a smooth summit meeting in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

The missile test was also an unwanted distraction for the United States, which has been trying on the sidelines of the summit to finalize a deal with Russia for a ceasefire in Syria.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov met in Hangzhou, but failed to clinch a breakthrough. Obama later talked with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but there was no immediate word on the outcome.

The South Korean military said Pyongyang launched the missiles at around 0300 GMT. The South's Yonhap news agency said the medium-range missiles flew for about 600 miles (1,000 km) and landed inside Japan's air defense identification zone.

The test prompted a quick meeting between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Hangzhou, and they agreed to cooperate on monitoring the situation, a Japanese statement said.

Earlier on Monday, the leaders of South Korea and China met on the sidelines of the G20 summit and Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed Beijing's commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, state news agency Xinhua reported.

New Delhi:  Delhi lawmaker Sandeep Kumar's close aide Praveen Singh has been detained by the police after the former minister alleged that he had circulated the sex tape that lost him his job.

Praveen Singh is the Officer on Special Duty or OSD and a close friend of Sandeep Kumar, who was arrested over the weekend after a woman accused him of raping her and filming the video. A court today sent him to three more days in police custody, where he will be interrogated.

Sandeep Kumar was sacked last week by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal after the sex tape became public. The Aam Aadmi Party suspended him on Saturday. Mr Kejriwal has accused the 36-year-old of "betraying AAP and our movement."


Mr Kumar has held that he is not the man seen on the sex video and that he is being  targeted "because I am a Dalit." His wife Ritu Kumar has backed him saying her husband has been "falsely implicated" and alleging a political conspiracy.

The former minister's troubles deepened when a 40-year-old woman alleged on Saturday that she is the woman in the video and that she was drugged and raped by Mr Kumar before being filmed, about a year ago, when he was already Delhi's minister for woman and child development.      

Praveen Kumar was detained today from the gate of the Delhi Secretariat where he works. He is now being questioned, said the police, before they decide on making a formal arrest.

Circulating sexual matter is a crime under Section 66A of the IT Act, which provides punishment for sending offensive messages through communication devices and services.


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AAP minister Sandeep Kumar arrested on rape charge, suspended from party

Capping a day of dramatic developments, sacked Delhi Minister Sandeep Kumar was arrested on Saturday night on rape and other charges hours after he surrendered before police following a complaint by a woman, who purportedly figured in an “objectionable” CD with him.

“Kumar was arrested on rape and other charges as per details that emerged during preliminary investigation,” DCP (Outer Delhi) Vikramjeet Singh told PTI.

36-year-old Kumar, who was suspended by AAP, will be produced in a court on Sunday.


The 40-year-old woman’s statement was recorded before a magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC.

After recording statement of the woman and Kumar, he was booked on charges of rape, transmission of material containing sexually explicit act and taking illegal gratification.

In her complaint, the woman alleged that around 11 months ago, she was raped by Kumar when she had gone to his office in Outer Delhi’s Sultanpuri seeking help to obtain a ration card.

She alleged that Kumar had offered her a spiked drink and, when she fell unconscious, she was taken to his house adjacent to the office and raped. The woman alleged that Kumar had told her that he will get a ration card for her and also ensure jobs for her children.

Kumar was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape), 328 (Causing hurt by means of poison with intent to commit an offence), 67A of the IT Act (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act) and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration for an official act), said a senior police official.

Earlier in the day, AAP’s Political Affairs Committee suspended the first-time MLA from the party and referred the matter to its disciplinary committee.

Kumar was removed from the council of ministers on August 31 by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the CD purportedly showing him in compromising position with the woman surfaced.

The MLA from Sultanpur Majra had surrendered before the investigators at the office of DCP (Outer) in Pitampura where his statement was recorded, senior police officials said.

Kejriwal had tweeted that if the allegations were found to be true, Kumar should be given “exemplary punishment”.

“If woman’s allegations are correct, this is v serious. Strongest exemplary punishment shud be given to Sandeep,” Kejriwal who is in Rome to attend Mother Teresa’s canonisation tweeted.

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JD(U) supports AAP’s decision to sack Sandeep Kumar

The Janata Dal (United) on Friday came in support of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for taking action against his ex-cabinet colleague Sandeep Kumar over the alleged sex CD row. “It is true that no one’s character is written on his forehead. Arvind Kejriwal ji is absolutely right. As a Chief Minister, it is his responsibility to look after the Cabinet. As soon as he got to know about it, he sacked the minister,” JD (U) leader Ajay Alok told reporters.

Kejriwal on Thursday attempted to downplay the matter by claiming that the Aam Aadmi Party, which is the nation’s biggest hope, does not spare willful wrongdoers. Kejriwal said that he would prefer to forfeit his party but never tolerate corruption and wrongful activities, as the AAP does not believe in hiding flaws of its members. Commenting on Kumar’s “misdeeds”, Kejriwal said that his former Cabinet colleague has betrayed the party and the people of Delhi.

Kejriwal said that Sandeep Kumar was a “rotten fish” which was immediately removed after its illness came to light. Sandeep Kumar, who was sacked on Wednesday for allegedly featuring in a CD which shows him in a ‘compromising position with two women’, has denied that the person in the controversial video was him and that he was bearing the brunt for being a Dalit and poor.
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Demanding an investigation into the matter, Sandeep Kumar said the action taken against him has been foul and dubbed the CD episode as a hoax , asserting that a conspiracy was being hatched against him. “I am paying the price for being a Dalit. I am not the person in that video. Investigation must be done about the video. Like Eklavya was pulled down, people from our community rise when some plot is hatched to destroy us,” said Kumar.

“The plot was hatched ever since I installed Dr Ambedkar’s statue. It is because I am poor and a Dalit,” he added. A CD featuring Sandeep Kumar was delivered to Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal’s home yesterday at eight in the evening. Half-an-hour later, he tweeted that he was sacking the minister. According to reports, the CD shows Sandeep Kumar in a ‘compromising position with two women’. It also had 11 photographs.

Elected from Sultanpur Majra, 34-year-old Kumar was the youngest minister in Kejriwal’s original cabinet, after the Aam Aadmi Party was voted to power in February 2015. He had won the rural constituency with a margin of 64,439 votes

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Arvind Kejriwal sacks Sandeep Kumar: How AAP betrayed blessings and poll promises

India has a long list of politicians who lost their Cabinet berths after losing an election. But, AAP's Sandeep Kumar would go down in record books as the first minister to get kicked out of a ministry because of something that just rhymes with, er, election.

On Wednesday night, he was sacked by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal just before the media started playing tapes, of Kumar's alleged escapades in a house that looked like his hunting ground, on loop.

In a CD sent anonymously to media houses, Kumar, minister of women and child welfare, allegedly figures with two different women. In one of them — a nine-minute video — he is seen in an "objectionable" position with a woman, whom he later advises to meet him "only after 9 pm" and never in public. The CD also contained still pictures allegedly showing Kumar with another woman in varying degrees of proximity.

Allegedly, instead of helping women in need, a job mandated by his ministry, Kumar was helping himself to women to satiate his needs.


Making a virtue out of necessity, AAP claimed that it had set high standards of probity in public life by taking quick action against Kumar. "AAP is a party of ideals. AAP has a zero tolerance policy towards corruption, scandals," deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said. "Ministers found taking bribes were removed immediately as soon as it was found. Action will be taken swiftly against any member irrespective of status or position," he told the media.

Sisodia's hypocrisy would have sounded more comic had he not been competing with the sacked minister, a self-proclaimed patni-vrata aam aadmi.

In a speech that went viral last year, Kumar told his audience on International Women's Day (8 March) that he takes his wife's blessings almost every day before venturing out.

"Main roz subah inke pair choo kar ghar se nikalta hoon (I touch her feet before leaving the house every morning)," he said, bringing the packed auditorium at Delhi's secretariat down with a thunderous response.

He later told the The Indian Express about his blissful marital life and how he was grateful to his wife for being with him through thick and thin.

If the video is right, the minister was obviously fooling a lot of people at the same time, both in private and in public.

The only silver lining, if any, in Kejriwal's conduct is that he has been quick to act on complaints of impropriety. Unlike the BJP that first inducted Nihal Chand as a minister in the Union government in spite of the lawmaker facing allegations of rape and then continued to protect him despite public outrage and the Congress that has a history of protecting tainted politicians, Kejriwal has at least taken quick and decisive action.

But, the Delhi CM's penchant for alacrity in such matters has been deprived of its novelty and moral underpinnings because the AAP is now being routinely exposed as a party low on scruples that were promised by Kejriwal. "If politics is keechad (muck), we will have to get deep into it to clean it," Kejriwal had said, explaining the raison d'être of AAP. Ironically, his AAP now looks like keechad — a mini replica of Indian politics.

For a party that made such a song and dance of its selection process, owes its birth to an anti-corruption movement and public clamour for clean politics, it is indeed a shame that every few months the AAP gets into trouble because of legislators with gaping moral and ethical lacunae.

In October, Kejriwal had publicly sacked Asim Ahmed Khan, the then minister of food and environment for allegedly seeking bribes. Before that, after defending him publicly, Kejriwal had to sack law minister Jitendra Tomar for faking a degree.

Delhi has a sanctioned strength of seven ministers. Three bad apples in less than 18 months is indeed an alarming sample for Kejriwal's lot. Either his party is guilty of not performing the advertised due diligence or Kejriwal and his team have a problem judging people. Either way, these are signs that erode Kejriwal's base.

Like patni-vrata Kumar, the AAP has betrayed people's faith and blessings.


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