The Law Minister was asked to depose before the commission to explain the charges against him but he sent his lawyers, who said he was absent due to "some urgencies".
Bharti's lawyers and the Commission Chief Singh, a former Congress MLA, had a public confrontation at the DCW office after she refused to allow them to present the minister's response.
The Aam Aadmi Party had yesterday said in a statement that it "strongly disapproved of the politicisation of the office of Delhi Commission for Women by its chairperson".