New Delhi: Trouble is mounting for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Somnath Bharti after his wife Lipika Mitra approached the Delhi Police accusing him of domestic violence and torture. Acording to sources, she was taken for a medical examination of her injuries as she claimed that they were inflicted upon her by her husband.
Lipika had filed a 26-page complaint with the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) in which she alleged that Bharti had forced her to go for abortion when she became pregnant for the third time and that she once tried to slit her wrist due to unrelenting torture. She has also lodged a complaint about dowry and marriage under false promises.
"Me and my children are subject to harassment and torture - mental, physical and oral - by my husband Somnath Bharti. There is a persistent threat from my husband and his supporters," she had said in her complaint to the DCW. The Delhi police has provided protection to Bharti's wife.
No FIR has been filed in the case yet but the senior officers of the Delhi Police are likely to meet and decide the further course of action on Friday.
Meanwhile, Bharti has refuted all allegations. In reply to her allegations, Bharti alleged that Lipika had threatened him that she will spoil his political life "and probably, this is the way she chose," he said.
The couple has two children and Lipika lives separately in Dwarka along with the kids.
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