Prakash Jarwal Explained

Prakash Jarwal
Residence:Delhi
Constituency:Deoli
Office:Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
Predecessor:Arvinder Singh Lovely
Party:AAP
Term Start:2013
Education:M.Com. (University of Delhi)

Prakash Jarwal is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party, currently representing Deoli constituency in the Delhi State Legislature.[1] [2] [3]

About

Jarwal is the youngest candidate of Aam Aadmi Party, 25 years old. Jarwal has left his job of assistant manager in a multinational company, to join the anti-Corruption movement and later AAP.[4] Jarwal has been jailed for an alleged assault on a Delhi Jal Board junior engineer.[5]

On 21 July 2017, Jarwal was booked for molesting and harassing a woman who was allegedly a member of the Rashtravadi Janata Party.[6]

On 20 February 2018, an assault case was filed by Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash against Jarwal and fellow legislator Amanatullah Khan for allegedly slapping and abusing him at the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.[7] He was granted bail on 9 March.[8] In 2021, a Delhi court dismissed the assault case filed by the Delhi bureaucrat against Kejriwal and ten AAP MLAs and discharged them of all charges. The court noted that "no prima facie case" was made against them.[9]

On 18 April 2020, a 52-year-old doctor, Rajendra Singh, had allegedly committed suicide, holding Jarwal responsible in his suicide note following which police had registered a case against the legislator on charges of extortion and abetment to suicide.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Deoli -Prakash, Candidates Delhi 2013. Aam Aadmi Party official website.
  2. Web site: Assembly Elections December 2013 Results . Election Commission of India . 4 January 2014.
  3. Web site: Deoli's Hopes Ride on Youngest MLA. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924204226/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-3150298421.html. dead. 24 September 2015. Hindustan Times. 10 December 2013 . 4 January 2014.
  4. News: Youth is the mantra for AAP. The Statesman website. 30 October 2013.
  5. News: AAP MLA Prakash Jrawal held for assault on Delhi Jal Board engineer. India Today website. 26 May 2014.
  6. Web site: AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal booked for molestation for the second time. 21 July 2017.
  7. Web site: Delhi Chief Secretary 'assault': AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal granted bail by Delhi High Court. 9 March 2018. 18 December 2019.
  8. Web site: Delhi Chief Secretary 'assault': AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal granted bail by Delhi High Court. 9 March 2018.
  9. News: Ohri . Raghav . Court throws out assault case against Arvind Kejriwal and 10 Others . 15 March 2022 . The Economic Times . 12 August 2021.
  10. Web site: Doctor suicide: Non-Bailable warrant against AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal. 2020-05-08. The Indian Express. en-US. 2020-05-09.