Former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti on Wednesday broke down in front of Delhi Police officers at Dwarka Sector 23 police station. According to the police, when cops questioned him about the reason for assaulting his wife Lipika Mitra, the former minister broke down.

However, the AAP MLA still claimed that he was in Delhi since the High Court had rejected his bail plea. "I am a lawyer and I will not disclose anything," he was quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, the police, in the FIR against the AAP MLA, have added Section 212 of the IPC. The section deals with providing shelter to a fugitive. Cops have so far identified five persons who allegedly sheltered Bharti.

Taking forward the interrogation, cops questioned Bharti on Tuesday evening and initially asked him about the allegations which were levelled by his wife.

However, Bharti denied all allegations and claimed that they were baseless.

"Initially Bharti was stiff but was responding, but he broke down when he was asked specific details about how he used to assault his wife and why he did so," said a senior police officer.

Police have also asked Bharti to clarify the incident of allegedly unleashing his dog on his wife Lipika and pin-pointed at a particular derogatory word which, the lawmaker's estranged wife claimed, compelled her to report her ordeal to the police. He, however, denied all allegations.

Bharti was confronted with the driver of a Faridabadbased businessman whose car he had borrowed and later fled from Delhi. "Bharti was confronted with the driver of a Faridabad-based businessman who dropped him on Yamuna Expressway and the driver has recognised him, but the AAP leader claimed that he had never seen the driver," the officer added.

In the wee hours of Wednesday, cops took Bharti to the Dwarka apartment where he lived with his wife, in order to locate the exact location of the crime and reconstruct events.

His wife Lipika was present when Bharti was taken there but no conversation took place between the two during the visit, which lasted between 30 to 40 minutes, the officer said, adding that the former Delhi law minister was later taken to his office in Malviya Nagar and his mother's residence at Vasant Kunj, where his brother Loknath Bharti also resides as Lipika had alleged that she was assaulted in that house too.

In the evening, the police took Bhati's pet dog, Don, to a veterinary hospital in Moti Bagh where the labrador retriever is to be examined by an expert, a police officer said.

The former law minister had surrendered on Monday and was subsequently sent to police custody by a Delhi court.