New Delhi: Delhi Police placed Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke under preventive arrest and released All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora early Saturday morning after detaining both Friday. Later in the day, Dipke was granted bail after submitting a written undertaking to maintain peace and tranquillity for one year.
Bora was released after completion of the formalities under Section 65 of Delhi Police Act, according to police. Preventive action was taken against Dipke under sections 126 (security for keeping peace in other cases) and 170 (arrest to prevent commission of cognisable offences) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Before the detention, a team of more than 10 police personnel reached the residence and asked him not to proceed with the proposed demonstration.
Bora was detained from Mandi House and taken to RK Puram police station, where she was kept overnight before being released around 5am Saturday.
“She was detained before sunset and kept at the police station,” an officer said. Dipke, meanwhile, was detained outside a residence in Jhandewalan in central Delhi ahead of CJP’s ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ march at Delhi’s Connaught Place Friday. Police cited the possibility of traffic congestion, concerns over public safety and disruption to commercial activity as reasons for opposing the march.
On Friday night, a delegation of lawyers and civil society members reached Parliament Street police station, demanding Bora’s release, and remained there for several hours until late into the night.