“Somnath Bharti failed to look for listening to in a 2021 case on Tuesday, following which Extra Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Dr Vivek Kumar on Thursday declared him an absconder. The court docket has issued a non-bailable warrant and a discover beneath Part 82 (proclamation for particular person absconding) of the Prison Process Code,” Particular Public Prosecutor Sandeep Kumar Singh mentioned on Friday.
He added that the court docket has mounted November 13 as the following date of listening to.
Singh mentioned a case was filed in opposition to the previous minister in 2021 for allegedly misbehaving with police on the Delhi Irrigation Division's visitor home.
Nonetheless, Bharti later secured a bail and the case has been pending ever since within the MP-MLA Court docket. Regardless of the court docket's repeated orders for his in-person look, Bharti has not been showing in court docket, Singh mentioned.