New Delhi: AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya, arrested in a case of alleged molestation, was on Monday sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a Delhi court which rejected his bail plea.
"There is no change in the circumstances in the last 2 days to interfere with the duty magistrate's June 25 order. This second bail application of accused is dismissed," Metropolitan Magistrate Bhavna Kalia said.
The duty magistrate on Saturday had denied him bail and sent him to Tihar jail for two days till today.
The MLA was booked on June 23 for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women who had approached him with a complaint regarding water crisis in their locality on the previous midnight. An FIR was lodged at South Delhi's Neb Sarai Police Station.
Mohaniya has been arrested under the sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 A (sexual harassment), 354 B (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe) and 354 C (voyeurism) of the IPC.
