Somnath Bharti will get 2 years in jail for assaulting safety employees at AIIMS

A courtroom right here on Saturday sentenced AAP MLA Somnath Bharti to 2 years in jail for assaulting the AIIMS safety employees in a case registered in 2016. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey additionally imposed a wonderful of Rs 1 lakh on the chief.
Bharti, nevertheless, was granted bail to allow him to file an attraction earlier than the excessive courtroom towards his conviction within the case and jail time period.
According to the prosecution, on September 9, 2016, Bharti, together with almost 300 others, introduced down the fence of a boundary wall on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) right here with a JCB operator.
“The court is of the considered view that the prosecution has duly proved its case beyond all reasonable doubt against accused Somnath Bharti,” the Justice of the Peace mentioned.
The courtroom convicted Bharti for numerous offences below the Indian Penal Code (IPC), together with below sections 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), 353 (assault or use of felony power to discourage public servant from discharge of his responsibility) and 147 (rioting).
It additionally held the AAP MLA responsible below part 3 (mischief inflicting harm to public property) of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

The offences carry a most punishment of 5 years in jail.
The courtroom, nevertheless, acquitted Bharti’s associates and co-accused — Jagat Saini, Dileep Jha, Sandeep Sonu and Rakesh Pandey — citing an absence of proof towards them.
The case was lodged on the premise of a criticism from R S Rawat, Chief Security Officer, AIIMS.
Bharti had instructed the courtroom that police officers and different witnesses had deposed towards him to be able to falsely implicate him within the case.