AAP's Kumar Vishwas has denied any wrong-doing. (File photo)
Highlights
- Kumar Vishwas accused of molesting an AAP volunteer during 2014 polls
- Police says initial probe found no evidence, Vishwas denies allegations
- Last year, the woman alleged Vishwas 'planted' the story of their affair
A police case has to be filed against Kumar Vishwas, high-profile leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, for allegedly molesting a party volunteer, a court in Delhi ruled today, according to news agency Press Trust of India.
Mr Vishwas has denied any wrongdoing.
The police had said in court recently that a preliminary inquiry did not throw up any evidence against the poet-turned-politician.
The woman volunteer alleges that the poet-turned-politician molested her in different cities during campaigning for the 2014 election, and then a few months later. Before she made her charge of molestation, she had asked the Delhi Commission of Women in May 2015 to order Mr Vishwas, 46, to publicly deny having an affair with her. The woman said that Mr Vishwas, a member of his party's top decision-making committee and a star campaigner, had refused her requests to clear the air after talk of their affair was "planted" on social media, ruining her reputation.