Swati Maliwal staged the incident to defame Police: BJP
21 Jan 2023 11:29:52
New Delhi, Jan 21: A day after AAP leader and Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chief Swati Maliwal claimed that she was dragged by a drunk drive for 10-15 metres by trapping her hand in the car window, BJP has accused her of staging the incident.
BJP leaders have alleged that Swati Maliwal staged the incident with the help of ABP news to defame the Delhi police.
BJP leader Shazia Ilmi said that it is very unfortunate that Aam Aadmi Party and ABP news conducted a sting operation with the help of Swati Maliwal. ‘Their objective was clear, somehow defame the Delhi police, but this conspiracy by them failed completely due to the alertness of Delhi police,’ Ilmi said. The BJP leader added that the point to be ponder is, why a channel to increase its TRP or a political party for political benefits will use a serious matter like women’s safety. This is very serious question from a moral point of view, she added. Another BJP leader Harish Khurana also made similar allegations of staged incident, questioning why Maliwal was doing at 2-3 am in the night by trying to pull out keys from cars. He also asked why Maliwal was silent for 14 hours. He alleged that the DCW chief was trying to hit the morale of Delhi police using the ‘staged video’.
The video of the incident has emerged on social media, and it does raise some questions. Many netizens pointed out that when the car stopped, Swati Maliwal went forwards to talk to him. When the car returned, she went to the drivers side to talk, when the driver allegedly trapped her by rolling up the window as she had allegedly put her hand inside the car, and the car drives away. However, the video stops at that time, it does not show Swati Maliwal being dragged by the car. ABP News played this video in their report on the incident, along with other videos. The channel was accompanying Swati Maliwal on the night, and the channel said that the incident was caught on ABP News cameras. The channel also showed other footage from the night featuring the DCW chief.
While Swati Maliwal has claimed that the driver was forcing her to get into the car, the voice of the driver is not audible in the video. Moreover, it shows her approaching the car immediately after it stopped in front of her, and then she starts talking to the driver. Weirdly, when the driver offers to drop her, she keeps asking him where will he drop her. She then moves the driver’s side and asks the same question.