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New Delhi: An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) delegation, on Friday, met the Chief Election Commissioner, demanding action against the Delhi Police for allegedly harassing call centre employees hired by the party.

The delegation, led by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, alleged that the police has been carrying out searches at their call centre for the past four days at the behest of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The AAP delegation, including senior leader Sanjay Singh and Lok Sabha candidates Raghav Chadha and Atishi also urged the CEC to direct the Delhi Police to stop the harassment of the call centre employees.

Before meeting the Election Commissioner, the AAP leaders staged a dharna (sit-in protest) outside the poll panel's office protesting against the raid.

The Delhi Police, however, rubbished the allegations and said that no call centre owners had filed a complaint regarding harassment by their investigating team members.

"No call centre owners have filed a complaint regarding harassment by our investigating team members. Relevant facts of the matter are being ascertained. No person has been arrested in the case so far. FIR was registered following complaints regarding bogus calls about the Delhi’s electoral rolls, and its investigations are underway. As far as the allegations against us are concerned, we have already responded about them to Election Commission," Delhi Police Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) said, according to news agency ANI.

Earlier, BJP met Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and accused the AAP of making misleading phone calls about Delhi’s electoral rolls.

The poll panel had earlier directed the police to take "necessary action" against the people making such calls following which the Delhi Police registered an FIR.

The AAP has been alleging that the BJP had deleted names of 30 lakh voters from the electoral list ahead of Lok Sabha elections. The party also hired a call centre to inform voters about this alleged discrepancy.

Earlier in the day, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal questioned the motive behind the raid and tweeted, “Police has raided without any search warrant and is barging into server rooms and interrogating all call centre agents. What is this going on? What is the crime?”

Police has raided without any search warrant and is barging into server rooms and interrogating all call centre agents. What is this going on? What is the crime? https://t.co/VAjtfWNUjY — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 15, 2019

Meanwhile, Singh, a senior AAP leader called for strict action against the police officials involved in alleged harassment of the call centre employees.

"The Delhi police is working like goons. We urged the EC to stop the Delhi police from doing it. They (Delhi police) are pressuring and harassing the call centre employees. They are not making proxy calls, they have been hired by the Aam Aadmi Party, we have entered into an agreement with them to do it," he said.