This story is from May 19, 2015

Councillors seek CM’s appointment for Nisha Singh’s release

A day after 34 MCG councillors led by mayor Vimal Yadav sought charges against AAP member Nisha Singh dropped, Gurgaon deputy commissioner T L Satyaprakash spoke to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday.
Councillors seek CM’s appointment for Nisha Singh’s release
GURGAON: A day after 34 MCG councillors led by mayor Vimal Yadav sought charges against AAP member Nisha Singh dropped, Gurgaon deputy commissioner T L Satyaprakash spoke to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday. According to sources, councillors have sought an appointment with the chief minister on Tuesday.
Earlier, Yadav and councilors met Satyaprakash and sought his intervention in the matter.
“We met the DC and sought his help. He spoke to the chief minister, who was in Faridabad, and briefed him about the matter. We have sought an appointment with the chief minister so that we can explain him that the accusations against Nisha are totally false,” the mayor told TOI.
Singh is among 20 arrested for the violence during HUDA’s demolition drive in Sector 47. She is in judicial custody since Saturday night and has been slapped with rioting, attempt to murder and other IPC charges. But fellow councillors say that as a representative from the area, she was within her right to make a recording of the incident. On Monday, the city mayor termed Singh’s arrest as the classical examples of “police and administration’s high-headedness and contempt for the elected representatives”. “If the false charges against Nisha are not quashed immediately, we will take this issue to the highest authorities in the state,” said Yadav.
Singh, who was supposed to apply for bail on Monday, could not do so because the lawyers of the local court were on strike. The advocates were protesting the assault on a senior lawyer on Saturday. The councillor is now likely to apply for bail on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Bhondsi jail has become a centre of action as several people including the mayor and his deputies visited the councillor. “We met our colleague and assured her that we are doing everything possible to ensure that she gets justice,” said Yadav.
Various activists are planning to hold a public meeting on Tuesday evening near the demolition site.
When asked, the deputy commissioner refused to comment on the issue.
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