AAP legislator booked after Congress rival said he misbehaved with his wife

New Delhi: Newly-elected Aam Aadmi Party legislator Dharmender Koli has been booked for allegedly misbehaving with the wife of the Congress candidate who lost to him. The AAP has called it a fake case by a Congress rattled by defeat.

Veer Singh Dhingan, a three-time Congress legislator who was defeated in the Seemapuri constituency in north-east Delhi in last week's assembly polls, alleged that Mr Koli entered his house during his victory lap on Sunday and misbehaved with his wife.

According to the Press Trust of India, there was a scuffle between workers of the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress in front of Mr Dhinghan's residence on Sunday morning.

Refuting the charges, Mr Koli said, "I will file a defamation case against them. I was busy throughout the day in the procession. Our procession passed through Seemapuri, Gopulpuri and other parts of the constituency. I was in an open jeep and did not get time to get out of it. How can I do such things? It is an attempt to malign my image."

The AAP supported his allegations and called it an attempt to tarnish the party's image after its spectacular success in the polls. "It seems that it is a fake case as the incident happened in the morning and a complaint was filed late in the night. Koli will be expelled from the party if the allegations are found true but a defamation suit will be filed if they turn out to be false," the party said in a statement.

"We have spoken to people who were present over there. Nothing of this sort happened. It's a conspiracy," AAP leader Manish Sisodia told NDTV today.

Mr Koli's sister, Santosh, an associate of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal since his NGO days, was given the ticket to contest from the Seemapuri constituency earlier. But she died in August in a road accident soon after her candidature was announced. Mr Kejriwal's party had then filed a case alleging conspiracy behind her death.

The AAP finished second in the polls, winning 28 of 70 seats, and is credited with decimating the incumbent Congress, which was pushed to a poor third.