Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti arguing with police officers during a 'midnight raid' on January 15.
A Ugandan woman says she has identified Delhi Law Minister
Somnath Bharti as the man who led the 'midnight raid' at her house last week, in a statement recorded in front of a magistrate on Tuesday.
"We were attacked on Wednesday night (January 15) by Indians who were led by
Somnath Bharti. They are claiming we are blacks and we should leave their country. We were harassed, we were beaten, they had long sticks (sic) and they said we should leave their country or they'll kill us one by one. We don't know if being black is a crime," she told reporters after recording her statement.
The woman claimed that it was Mr Bharti's muffler that helped her identify him when he appearance on TV the next day. "I identified Somnath Bharti because he came in the night then the next day I saw him on television. He was still putting on what I saw last night."
The Delhi Police had registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unknown people on Sunday, following a complaint by the Ugandan nationals. Mr Bharti was not named in the FIR. (
AAP's 'midnight raid': FIR lodged against unknown people)
In a complaint filed in the Saket court on Saturday, the woman had alleged that a group of people from a political party forcibly entered her house in south Delhi and molested her. While she didn't name any individual or a political party, she told the court that she could identify the men
Mr Bharti, who has been heavily slammed for what many described as vigilantism, vehemently denied any wrongdoing on the part of workers of his Aam Aadmi Party who were present during that raid.
Mr Bharti had, aided by some residents and supporters accosted four women from Uganda during the raid on a building in Khirki Extension, which is in his constituency in south Delhi.
At least two were allegedly forced to go to hospital and undergo drug tests. The minister justified raid saying drugs and sex were allegedly being trafficked there.