A Delhi Court docket on Monday remanded Swatantra Bhardwaj to 14 days of judicial custody in an alleged assault case regarding father of a teenage Cockroach Janta Celebration (CJP) activist throughout Jantar Mantar protest in July.
Further Classes Decide Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler of Patiala Home Courts handed the order after Bhardwaj was produced in Court docket on expiry of his sooner or later of police custody.
He was earlier remanded to sooner or later of police custody on Saturday.
He’ll now be produced earlier than the Court docket on September 21.
Bhardwaj was detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on Friday, hours after the CJP staged a protest outdoors the Parliament Avenue police station demanding his arrest within the matter.
The Delhi Police had then added provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and legal intimidation to the FIR towards Bhardwaj over the alleged assault on the daddy of the minor activist. A POCSO case has additionally been registered towards him.
Bharadwaj got here underneath scanner after his claims in a video podcast about assaulting the daddy of the CJP protester grew to become viral. Within the video, he boasted that he had political connections.
Counsel for Complainant: Adv Swati Khanna, Adv Mohd Yasin, Adv Omar Hoda, Adv Rishav Ranjan, Adv Ayesha Khan, Adv Yash Balariya
