Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson, Swati Maliwal has approached the Delhi High Court challenging orders of the trial court framing of corruption and criminal conspiracy charges against her and others for “prima facie” abusing their official positions to appoint AAP workers to different posts in the women’s rights body during 2015-16.

Maliwal has sought a stay as an interim relief and direction to quash the charges framed by the lower court. The criminal revision petition filed through Advocate Chirag Madan would come up before the bench of Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani on Friday.

On December 8, Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh ordered the framing of corruption and criminal conspiracy charges against Maliwal besides DCW members Promila Gupta, Sarika Chaudhary and Farheen Malick. The trial court had said the perusal of minutes of the meetings held on various dates by the DCW was “enough to prima facie point to strong suspicion.