{"id":285364,"date":"2018-02-22T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285364"},"modified":"2018-02-22T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:44:33","slug":"bruises-swelling-on-delhi-chief-secretarys-face-says-medical-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bruises-swelling-on-delhi-chief-secretarys-face-says-medical-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruises, swelling on Delhi Chief Secretary&#039;s face, says medical report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images-3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285365 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images-3-300x178.jpeg\" alt=\"images (3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" data-id=\"285365\" \/><\/a>According to Delhi\u2019s Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash\u2019s medical examination report, there was \u201ctenderness and mild swelling\u201d behind both ears, a bruise over the lower lip and swelling over the on the right side of the\u00a0jaw and the police are treating it as an important piece of evidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi\u2019s chief secretary Anshu Prakash was allegedly assaulted by two ruling Aam Aadmi Party (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/tag\/aap\/\">AAP<\/a>) MLAs at Chief Minister\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/tag\/arvind-kejriwal\/\">Arvind Kejriwal<\/a>\u2019s residence on February 19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His medical examination was conducted on the night of February 20. The medico-legal case (MLC) report which was prepared Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital\u2019s doctors, observed that Prakash had complained of painful movement of the neck, pain behind both his ears and below his right eye.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Delhi Chief Secretary met Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and registered a complaint against the MLAs, Ajay Dutt and Prakash Jharwal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on the FIR registered against MLA Amanatullah Khan and other unnamed legislators, the police have arrested two MLAs, Khan and Prakash Jarwal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThese two MLAs were the ones who allegedly hit the chief secretary,\u201d said Dependra Pathak, Delhi Police\u2019s chief spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Police investigators, MLC report is an important evidence in this case. MLC reports were always an \u201cimportant piece of evidence because it is scientific,\u201d said Pathak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the Chief Minister\u2019s office has denied the accusation in a statement that says, \u201cDelhi CM office strongly denies allegations by the Chief Secretary. There was no incident of assault or attempted assault by any\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/tag\/aap\/\">AAP<\/a>\u00a0MLAs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party has also questioned the over 20-hour delay in the medical check-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Delhi\u2019s Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash\u2019s medical examination report, there was \u201ctenderness and mild swelling\u201d behind both ears, a bruise over the lower lip and swelling over the on the right side of the\u00a0jaw and the police are treating it as an important piece of evidence. Delhi\u2019s chief secretary Anshu Prakash was allegedly assaulted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[658,659,306,660,661,662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}