Ratna Singh, head of legal affairs at the Cockroach Janta Party, was allegedly detained by police.
She was released by the police in the evening, news agency ANI reported.
Singh was proceeding towards the Supreme Court with two fellow advocates to participate in the protest, according to the plea. Singh had also sought directions for her immediate release. In her application, Singh alleged that police personnel had confined her and prevented her from joining a lawyers’ protest against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. She had sought registration of an FIR against the personnel allegedly involved, along with a police status report on the incident. She alleged that police personnel later prevented her from moving while she was sitting in a car with advocate Tara Narula outside her residence. Singh claimed that two cars blocked her vehicle from the front and rear, and that police personnel stood outside the car without explaining the legal basis for restricting her movement.
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Saket court on Saturday dismissed an application filed by Ratna Singh, head of legal affairs at the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), seeking an FIR against police personnel for allegedly detaining her at her residence. The plea came amid detentions of lawyers protesting against the CEC and the SIR exercise near the Supreme Court on Saturday.