New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Balyan was granted bail in an extortion case on Wednesday. But his ‘freedom’ didn’t last long.
Within minutes, Delhi Police arrested him in a case lodged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
#WATCH | Delhi: AAP MLA Naresh Balyan has been arrested by Delhi Police in an MCOCA case after he got bail in an extortion case.
He is being taken from Rouse Avenue Court to the Crime Branch office. https://t.co/UfhiXod0eP pic.twitter.com/GaMrx0lSgC
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While the bail plea of the MLA from Uttam Nagar assembly segment in the extortion case was being heard on Wednesday, Delhi Police informed the court that they will arrest him in the MCOCA case.
“We will be arresting Naresh Balyan in a different MCOCA FIR. We will be arresting him right now,” Special Public Prosecutor Akhand Pratap Singh submitted before the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Paras Dalal, reported The Indian Express.
Dalal, who had granted bail to Balyan on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and a surety of the same amount in the extortion case, said that Balyan was arrested in the MCOCA case while he was in police custody in connection with the extortion case.
Balyan was arrested on November 30, hours after the BJP shared an audio clip of what it claimed to be a conversation between Balyan and a gangster.
An FIR was filed based on a complaint by a resident of Mohan Garden in West Delhi, alleging that he had received an extortion call from gangster Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu demanding Rs 1 crore. He had alleged that he was threatened with “dire consequences” if he failed to pay the amount.
Police suspected Balyan’s involvement after recordings of a phone call allegedly between the MLA and the gangster were shown on a Hindi news channel.
