Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel convicted in 2015 rioting case

A Delhi court on Friday (October 18) sentenced Delhi Assembly Speaker and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Ram Niwas Goel to six months in jail for trespassing and voluntarily causing hurt at the house of a realtor, Manish Ghai in an East Delhi colony in 2015.

Goel’s son Sumit Goel and four others have also been sentenced to six-month imprisonment each.

An FIR was filed against Goel by complaint Manish Ghai that AAP’s Shahdara MLA Ram Niwas Goel and his supporters had allegedly raided one of his houses in Vivek Vihar on the night of February 6, 2015, a day before the Delhi Assembly elections.

AAP’s Shahdara MLA and his supporters had allegedly raided one of the houses of a local builder in Vivek Vihar. Manish Ghai, the builder, alleged in the FIR that Goel raided his house accusing him of stashing liquor and other stuff for distribution ahead of the assembly polls.

(With inputs from agencies)