Amanatullah Khan (file photo)

New Delhi: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Wednesday was discharged in a case filed by a woman alleging the legislator threatened and insulted her with the intention to outrage her modesty.

Special judge Arun Bhardwaj held, “Self-contradictory statements of the complainant do not even make it a case of suspicion for framing the charge against the accused.”

On July 10, 2016, the complainant claimed that she called up Khan, the area MLA, to inform him about an issue of the electricity supply in the area. She said as a result of the MLA’s casual approach to her grievances, she went to his house at Batla House,where she was threatened of rape and physical harm by a young man. However, in her complaint to the police commissioner on July 11, 2016, she did not mention the instance. On another occasion, while recording her statement in court , it came on record that Khan in a “white Swift” driven by another person, tried to run over her.

On July 19, 2016, the woman gave a new version, where she went to Khan’s house and a young man of 20-22 years of age threatened her of rape and setting her on fire, and said these were threats of the accused and not from him.

The court observed that though according to the woman the threat was made by the young man, no such person could be traced during investigation, making her case “highly doubtful and certainly not of grave suspicion.”

