Court summons Kejriwal; Saini drinks from river, AAP says he spat it out

Issuing a announcement to Kejriwal, the tribunal of Chief Judicial Magistrate Neha Goyal said, “He is directed to look in-person earlier this tribunal connected the adjacent day of hearing, if helium has to accidental thing successful the matter. If helium does not look earlier this tribunal connected adjacent day of hearing, it is deemed that helium has thing to accidental successful the substance and further proceedings shall beryllium conducted successful accordance with law.”

Under the Section 223 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, an accidental of being heard is to beryllium fixed to the accused earlier the magistrate takes cognizance of the offence.

The tribunal was proceeding a ailment filed by Ashish Kaushik, an enforcement technologist of Haryana Water Services, stationed successful Sonipat. The ailment has been filed nether Section 54 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and Section 353 (statements conducing to nationalist mischief) and 356 (defamation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Meanwhile, successful his reply to the Election Commission (EC), Kejriwal cited Delhi Jal Board (DJB) CEO Shilpa Shinde’s letter, which stated that the ammonia attraction is 7 parts per cardinal (ppm). “Indiscriminate discharge of concern waste” by Haryana government, helium said, was the “root cause” of the contamination.

His reply came aft the EC, connected Tuesday, acting connected complaints filed by BJP and Congress leaders, asked Kejriwal to springiness grounds supporting his allegation that the Haryana authorities was “poisoning” Delhi’s h2o proviso successful the run-up to the February 5 polls.

In his reply, Kejriwal said, “It cannot beryllium denied that harmless drinking h2o is 1 of the astir basal and indispensable requirements of immoderate civilised nine and raising an contented for the nine with respect to the aforesaid — cannot beryllium termed arsenic committing an offence.”

Shinde, successful an earlier missive to the EC, had said that DJB h2o attraction plants are designed to dainty ammonia up to 1 ppm and up to 2.5 ppm tin beryllium treated by dilution.

Kejriwal further listed the interaction of ammonia connected quality health, neurological impairment, liver and kidney dysfunction, babe mortality risks and bacterial outbreaks successful his reply. “The Delhi authorities has nary relation to play with specified a precocious level of toxic h2o being made disposable by Haryana, which is an upper-riparian state,” helium said. As a remedial measurement to the “grave situation”, starring to a shortage of drinking h2o successful Delhi, the main ministers of Delhi and Punjab instantly requested for the EC intervention, helium added.

Amid each this, Saini took a mates of sips from the Yamuna adjacent Dahisra colony connected the Delhi-Haryana border. He maintained that the Yamuna h2o connected the borderline of Haryana from wherever it enters Delhi wholly meets the standards and demanded Kejriwal’s apology to the radical of Delhi and Haryana for his “false” statement.

The AAP, however, called Saini’s sojourn to the Palla ghat a PR stunt. Kejriwal alleged connected X that Saini couldn’t gulp the h2o down. “Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini pretended to portion Yamuna’s water… and past spat the aforesaid h2o backmost into the Yamuna. When I pointed retired that owed to ammonia contamination, Yamuna’s h2o could beryllium a menace to the lives of Delhi residents, they threatened to record an FIR against me. The aforesaid toxic h2o they garbage to portion is being supplied to Delhi’s citizens – I volition not fto this happen,” helium posted.

Earlier successful the day, earlier visiting the stream bank, Saini deed retired astatine Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, whom helium called a “dummy” CM and invited her to to Pall Ghat wherever helium took the sip of water. “There is nary poison successful the h2o coming to Delhi from Haryana, but your minds are decidedly filled with poison…,” Saini said successful a station successful Hindi connected X.

He was responding to an earlier station connected X by Atishi who had requested Saini that “you and I spell together” to the Palla Ghat “and instrumentality media colleagues along” arsenic well. “We volition measurement the magnitude of ammonia successful beforehand of everyone. Everyone should cognize that Haryana is sending poisonous h2o to the radical of Delhi,” she had written.