The Delhi Police on Sunday arrested AAP MLA from Okhla, Amanatullah Khan, for allegedly threatening a woman with rape and murder when she visited his home with a complaint a few days ago.

The FIR in the incident that took place on July 10 been registered at Jamia Nagar police station last Tuesday. The woman, later in her statement before a magistrate and two applications to police, alleged that the MLA had continued to threaten and abuse her.

"Based on her fresh complaint, we have added Indian Penal Code sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with an intent to outrage her modesty) and 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide)," RP Upadhyay, Joint CP (South-Eastern Range), told The Hindu.

The officer added the woman has been provided police security following the alleged "threat to her life".

The MLA, in his defence, has told some news organisations that he was in Meerut on July 9 and 10. The Aam Aadmi Party has also released a video footage in which a woman, alleged to be the complainant, is purportedly seen telling someone that the Jamia Nagar SHO asked her to file a rape case against the MLA.

The earlier complaint had been registered against unknown persons under IPC sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman). “The case is not against the MLA,” the Joint CP had said back then.

The complainant in this case is a woman who was earlier associated with the Aam Aadmi Party and claims to be a social worker. The resident of South-East Delhi’s Jasola had called up the MLA on his mobile phone on July 10 to complain about power failure in her area.

She has claimed that she decided to visit the MLA’s house in Jamia Nagar after he was “indifferent” to her complaint over the phone. When she reached the MLA’s house, she found it locked from inside. When she received no response from inside, she decided to return.

“I had just walked a few steps when a young man opened the gates and called out to me. Accusing me of being a political leader, he threatened to have me raped and burnt alive. He said he was just conveying the MLA’s threats,” the woman alleged.