Later, police detained 14 people, including the party’s Ashutosh Ranka, Sourav Das and Ajinkya Shinde, and took them to Jaffarpur Kalan. New Delhi: CJP representatives breached barricades and jumped over locked gates at Jantar Mantar Tuesday before unfurling the Tricolour, catching security personnel by surprise. A FIR was filed against CJP for trespassing.
A senior police officer said there is no provision for allowing detained persons to meet their lawyers during the period of detention, and they are generally released within 24 hours. Only after an arrest, Section 38 of BNSS, 2023 grants a person the right to meet an advocate of his choice during police interrogation. Another officer said that Dipke, Ranka and Das were preventively arrested under Sections 126/170 of BNSS on Oct 10. Delhi Police said all due legal procedures were followed and the three were produced before the special executive magistrate’s court at Delhi Cantonment on Oct 11. They were released by the court after furnishing a surety bond of Rs 50,000 each, undertaking to maintain peace and good behaviour for a period of one year. Retain 250+ companies till Oct 20: Delhi Police to MHA Delhi Police has requested Union home ministry to extend the deplyment of over 250 companies of security personnel in the city till Oct 20, citing the need for security during the festive season.
Because police are not following the rule of law, this is kidnapping.
He said he would join Wednesday’s protests in Delhi and so would lakhs of youths. “If police detain me, I will begin my protest wherever I am stopped,” he said. “We regularly request additional companies during the festive season,” an officer said.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke posted on X, “Cockroaches with the tiranga sneaked into Jantar Mantar before they were picked up by police. You cannot denotify resistance. Later, he wrote, “Saurav, Ashu and Ajinkya are still in detention and police is not allowing the lawyers to meet them. CJP’s Ratna Singh also posted on X, “Delhi Police’s new rulebook — Detain people, deny them access to lawyers, thus violating their fundamental rights. When lawyers themselves are standing at police station gates demanding compliance with the law, where are the safeguards? This detention is illegal. Meanwhile, speaking to reporters in Maharashtra at Santuk Pimpri village in Hingoli taluka after attending the raksha visarjan ceremony of his grandmother, Dipke warned that thousands of protest sites would emerge across the country if Centre continued to prohibit demonstrations at Jantar Mantar.