Goa AAP Chief Amit Palekar Arrested for 'Misrepresentation of Facts' in Road Accident Case

The Goa Crime Branch on Thursday arrested state Aam Aadmi Party president Amit Palekar for allegedly misrepresenting facts in connection with an accident wherein a Mercedes car mowed down three people near Panaji earlier this month, an official said.

Palekar has been accused of misrepresenting facts by introducing a wrong person as the car driver before the investigation officer in an attempt to save the main accused who was at the wheels at the time of the accident, a senior police official told PTI.

The AAP leader, however, said he has nothing to do with the crime and claimed the action against him was part of a “dirty politics".