A court in New Delhi on Tuesday granted bail to Delhi minister
Atishi in a defamation case filed by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader over her claim that
several Aam Aadmi Party MLAs were approached by the saffron party with offers of
cash to bring down the Arvind Kejriwal government.
Additional Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate Tanya Bamniyal granted bail to Atishi in the
case filed by BJP leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor after she appeared
before the court pursuant to summons.
The judge granted the relief to
the senior AAP leader on a bail bond of Rs 20,000 and one surety of the
like amount.
Atishi was reported to have claimed 21 AAP MLAs were
contacted by the BJP, which offered Rs 25 lakh to each of them, to
switch over to the saffron camp.
The judge will further take up the
matter on August 8 for scrutiny of documents and arguments on framing of
notice (charges).
The judge had on May 28 refused to summon Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the defamation case.
Accusing Atishi of
making false claims about poaching attempts on AAP MLAs, Kapoor, a BJP
spokesperson, had moved the court with a criminal defamation complaint.
He had said the AAP leader had failed to furnish evidence to support
her claim. -- PTI