Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi : AAP MLA and former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti came into controversy, his wife Lipika Mitra alleged that when she was pregnent Bharti once left a dog chasing her and to put her in trouble.Lipika filed a complaint in the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW).DCW chairperson Barkha Shukla Singh said Mitra had approached the commission on Wednesday with a 26-page complaint in which she alleged that Bharti physically and verbally abused her and also did not give her money to look after their two children.
“We have issued a notice to Bharti and asked him to appear before the commission on June 26 at 3 pm,” Singh said. She said 40-year-old Mitra, who belongs to Kolkata, met Bharti in 2010 through a matrimonial website. They tied the knot soon after. However, they started having differences after the marriage and Mitra filed a similar complaint before another forum in 2011.
“She filed a complaint in 2011 but the couple resolved their differences later. However, she said, Bharti did not stop assaulting her after that. She has bruises all over her arm,” DCW’s Singh said.
Ms. Bharti has been living separately for the last three years along with their two children in a rented accommodation in Dwarka. Mr. Bharti lives with his mother and brother in Malviya Nagar. Ms. Bharti has filed a police complaint and an FIR is yet to be registered.
In a 25-page-long complaint, Ms. Lipika told the commission that she was subjected to physical and mental torture regularly. “Even before leaving for Kerala, he had come to my flat and beat me up. My four-year-old daughter is so scared of him that whenever he comes home, she hides,” the complaint said.
Talking to the media, Somnath Bharti appealed to his wife to not lie. “All these started after I missed my son’s birthday. I missed my son’s birthday as there were two days of the Delhi Assembly sessions. I missed it and I forgot it and that led to all these,” Bharti said.
“She had threatened me that she will spoil my political life and probably, this is the way she chose fulfil that. With folded hands, I request her that she should not lie and she should not spread lies in public domain,” he added.
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