Alongside an FIR being filed in the case of the violence during a midnight ‘raid’ by Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, the minister could find himself in a spot of trouble. CCTV footage from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AAIMS) in Delhi clearly shows him present in the hospital at 5 am that day, even as medical tests were being carried out on Ugandan women accused of being involved in the flesh trade and drug-peddlers.
According to a report on CNN-IBN, sources have confirmed that Bharti reached AIIMS after the Thursday night raid which ended with a mob of AAP supporters and residents allegedly assaulting women suspected of being involved in the flesh trade, forcing them into a vehicle and taken to AAIMS.
Bharti reportedly reached the hospital a few hours after the incident at Khirkee extension and asked to ‘see’ for himself what was going on at the hospital.
Bharti, having denied the allegation that he even had anything to do with the violence in Khirkee that night, held a janata darbar in Khirkee Extension on Sunday. There, he issued a warning to foreigners: “If there are good people, irrespective of their nationality, who are here to study or work, they will be welcomed. However, if they dance naked, sell drugs and run sex rackets, then there won’t be anyone worse than us. These people will have to leave,” Bharti was quoted as saying in this Hindustan Times article .
The Ugandan women have filed a complaint against Bharti. They have alleged that he used abusive language against them and detained them illegally.
The police filed an FIR based on a court direction, but against unknown persons, for molestation and wrongful restraint.
That he is also seen in the CCTV footage from inside AIIMS will naturally raise questions regarding what the minister was doing at the hospital while a mob of vigilantes insisted upon medical tests for the women.
Even as External Affairs minister Salman Khurshid said it was unacceptable that a group should treat foreign women in such a “narrow” way, Bharti tweeted on Saturday that he would “do an expose” on sex racketeering in Khirkee extension.


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