6 min learnUp to date: Sep 4, 2026 02:40 PM IST
The Cockroach Janta Get together has known as for the arrest of Swatantra Bhardwaj, a self-styled ‘influencer’ who purportedly admitted to have attacked a Jantar Mantar protester’s father in June. CJP spokesperson Saurav Das, co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka and others marched to the Parliament Avenue Police Station in Delhi from Patel Chowk to press for Bhardwaj’s arrest.
A right-wing activist’s viral boast, and declare of political safety, about ‘cracking an individual’s cranium’ at Delhi’s college students protest in July has sparked outrage.
An FIR had been registered within the assault case earlier. Nevertheless, the CJP claimed that the sections talked about within the FIR had been minor. After a number of hours of negotiation with the police on Friday, related sections pertaining to the SC/ ST Act had been added to the FIR within the case of assault on Sanjay, Nishu Azad’s father. A medical would even be performed to see if ‘try to homicide’ cost will be added.
Moreover, a grievance by Nishu concerning rape threats has additionally been acquired by the police.
“There’s a minor who has been related to our protest proper from Day One. Her father, Sanjay Ji, additionally comes together with her. Once we had been holding a peaceable sit-in protest when some members of a prison gang entered our protest and resorted to violence. After the FIR was registered, we continued placing strain on the police, saying that this was an try to homicide and that the related part needs to be added. We additionally demanded that the SC/ST Act be invoked as a result of they belong to a Dalit household. There may be additionally a caste angle to the matter. However the police didn’t take any such motion. Once we pressured the police, they advised us to strategy the court docket and acquire an order,” Saurav Das advised mediapersons outdoors the police station earlier than getting into.
VIDEO | Delhi: CJP spokesperson Saurav Das, co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka and others proceed to Parliament Avenue Police Station from Patel Chowk in reference to a case concerning accidents to certainly one of their supporters throughout Jantar Mantar protests. Saurav Das says, “There’s a minor… pic.twitter.com/0Lw5aYnFkv
— Press Belief of India (@PTI_News) September 4, 2026
Round 50 CJP supporters are staging a protest outdoors the police station whereas Ashutosh Ranka and Das are negotiating for Bhardwaj’s arrest.
Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress president Akshay Lakra, together with Nishu Aazad and her father, and Azad Samaj Get together chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad additionally joined the CJP in demanding Bhardwaj’s arrest. Purnea MP from Bihar Pappu Yadav later joined the CJP protesters on the sit-in protest outdoors the police station.
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What Swatantra Bhardwaj ‘confessed’
Swatantra Bhardwaj, a proper wing activist, purportedly confessed throughout a podcast that he had cracked the cranium of a protester. The declare relate to an incident at Jantar Mantar, when Ghaziabad resident Sanjay Kumar (38) sustained a head damage throughout a scuffle.
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Within the video, Bhardwaj is seen claiming that he attacked the daddy of a CJP protester and averted jail as a result of intervention by a politician. He is also heard saying that the particular person he allegedly attacked suffered 60 stitches and was on the verge of loss of life, and {that a} case beneath Part 307 of the IPC, relating to aim to homicide, ought to have been registered in opposition to him.
This man is brazenly admitting that he attacked individuals at Jantar Mantar and that BJP leaders supplied him immunity from police motion afterwards.
How rather more brazenly does somebody should admit it earlier than @DelhiPolice takes motion? pic.twitter.com/3nki1h9PaH
— Cockroach Janta Get together – CJP (@Cockroachisback) September 3, 2026
Bhardwaj stated one other accused within the case was launched from jail the next day and that he himself didn’t should go to jail. He’s heard boasting that police personnel acquired a name from a Delhi-based politician, whom he in comparison with an “elder brother”.
In one other video, Bhardwaj is seen boasting about how he attacked protesters with a kada (a thick bangle worn for spiritual causes) that he has the “guts” to confess his crime after committing it. He’s additionally seen boasting how he “drenched a blue pigeon in blood”, seemingly a reference to the ASP’s alternative of blue color. “We’re the one’s who do issues… We’ll do that in future, too. There can be belt remedy; there might be katta (nation pistol) remedy as effectively,” he stated.
Mr PM @narendramodi, this man is saying he has the गूदा to interrupt open Nishu’s father’s head and admit it on digital camera.
Will the PM order Delhi Police to arrest this man for the crimes he’s admitting? Or ought to Indians settle for a lawless system?
Cockroaches have the गूदा to make sure… pic.twitter.com/3Ez0PmpFwu
— Cockroach Janta Get together – CJP (@Cockroachisback) September 4, 2026
Large police deployment
An enormous police power was deployed outdoors the Parliament Avenue Police Station Police as CJP staff gathered, demanding Bharadwaj’s arrest. Posting a video of the police deployment, CJP stated on X: “Goons saved committing horrendous crimes. Cracked open the skulls of peaceable protesters, and never a single Delhi Police officer got here to their help.We requested for his or her arrest, and abruptly 1000’s of police personnel confirmed up… Even when a tenth of it had been used to arrest the prison brazenly accepting his crimes, we wouldn’t be right here within the first place. [sic].”
Delhi Police deployed this a lot power in opposition to our peaceable gathering.
Even when a tenth of it had been used to arrest the prison brazenly accepting his crimes, we wouldn’t be right here within the first place. pic.twitter.com/apuJvxVwVy
— Cockroach Janta Get together – CJP (@Cockroachisback) September 4, 2026
Through the negotiations with the police, Ranka requested: “When he [Bhardwaj] is himself saying that an try to homicide cost ought to have been slapped in opposition to him, why are you defending him?”
CJP’s group is at Parliament Avenue Police Station.
We are going to guarantee justice prevails. pic.twitter.com/3Kl8ysPcFw
— Cockroach Janta Get together – CJP (@Cockroachisback) September 4, 2026
