NEW DELHI: AAP MLA Somnath Bharti was arrested on Thursday for allegedly inciting a crowd to damage a portion of a compound wall of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and misbehaving with security officials. However, he was granted bail later in the day by a Delhi court which stated that he deserved relief.

Bharti is the second party legislator to be arrested by the Delhi Police in the last 24 hours. On Wednesday, AAP MLA and chairman of Delhi Waqf Board Amanatullah Khan was arrested by the Delhi police in a sexual harassment case filed against him by his sister-in-law. A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan after the investigator said he was not required for custodial interrogation.

Bharti was arrested by a police team from Malviya Nagar in the afternoon and taken to Hauz Khas police station where the case was registered against him on September 11.

Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Aggarwal approved the bail plea of Bharti while rejecting an application moved by the Delhi Police seeking 14-day judicial remand for him. While granting relief, the court said that chances of the legislator fleeing from justice was remote.

“Considering the nature of the offence and the fact that he is an MLA and a member of bar, chances of his fleeing from justice are remote. I am not inclined to send him to judicial custody and he deserves to be granted bail,” the magistrate said, while asking him to join the probe and not to influence witnesses.

The case against Bharti was registered on a complaint filed by AIIMS chief security officer R S Rawat. In his complaint to police, Rawat alleged that Bharti had provoked the mob to damage the fence of the hospital with a JCB at Gautam Nagar Nallah road in order to give access to unauthorised persons inside AIIMS property.

Bharti was previously arrested by Delhi Police in December 2015, in connection with the attempt to murder and domestic violence case filed by his wife. Fifteen AAP MLAs have been booked by the Delhi Police till now on various charges and 12 have been arrested.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“I am amased at a time when PM should be working on Uri, his machinery is working overtime to get AAP MLAs arrested or me implicated in false cases,” the Aam Aadmi Party leader tweeted, referring to the terror attack on an army camp in Uri in Kashmir that left 18 soldiers dead.

Kejriwal’s reaction came a day after he alleged that police had named him in an FIR related to alleged illegalities in the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and shortly after courts in Delhi gave bail to two AAP MLAs.

(With agency inputs)