A Delhi court today dismissed a plea for lodging an FIR against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for allegedly beating a man after he purportedly tried to attack party spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi with a shoe last June.
Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Jay Thareja rejected the plea of complainant Sunil Kumar Sharma, who had allegedly tried to attack Dwivedi on June 6 last year at the AICC headquarters, saying that he had not appeared before the court on the last two hearings to present his case.
The court on April 3 had asked Sharma to bring more evidence in support of his plea for lodging FIR against Singh.
The magistrate had said that at this time no conclusive evidence has been produced by the complainant for lodging an FIR against Singh.
The court had given opportunity to Sharma to lead more evidence but he failed to appear before it on last two dates on April 21 and today.
Sharma had filed a complaint for lodging criminal case against Singh accusing him of beating him along with others after the June 6 incident.
Sharma, posing as a journalist, had come close to Dwivedi during a press conference on June 6 last year and after removing his shoe, had allegedly brandished it at Dwivedi.
41-year-old Sharma was later arrested by police under two sections one of which is Section 107 (apprehension of breach of peace and tranquility).
The counsel for Sharma had earlier told the court that his client hailed from Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan and had come to meet Mukul Wasnik, the Union Minister and party affairs in-charge for Rajasthan, to lodge a complaint about the bad state of roads in his district.
Wasnik not being in the office, Sharma was asked by party workers to wait and he went to sit in the hall where the press conference was going on, he had told the court.
Sharma saw questions being asked to the Congress leader and himself raised a query relating to the problems in his district but after being “humiliated”, he “showed” the shoe to the leader, the lawyer had said.
His counsel had said after the incident, Digvijay Singh beat up Sharma along with others whom he could not recognise.
He has sought a direction to the Tuglaq Road Police Station in-charge to lodge a First Information Report and conduct a “free and fair” investigation into his complaint and also to produce the report of Sharma’s medical examination.
—PTI