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Prakash Jarwal is an Indian politician from the Aam Admi Party, currently representing Deoli constituency in the Delhi State Legislature.
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Jarwal is the youngest candidate of Aam Aadmi Party, 25 years old. Jarwal has left his job of assistant manager in a multinational company, to join the anti-Corruption movement and later AAP. Jarwal has been jailed for an alleged assault on a Delhi Jal Board junior engineer.
On 21 July 2017, Jarwal was booked for molesting and harassing a woman who was allegedly a member of the Rashtravadi Janata Party.
On 20 February 2018, Jarwal was arrested for assaulting Delhi chief secretary Anshu Prakash at the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. He was granted bail on 9 March.
On 18 April 2020, a 52-year-old doctor, Rajendra Singh, had allegedly committed suicide, holding Jarwal responsible in his suicide note following which police had registered a case against the legislator on charges of extortion and abetment to suicide.
