A Delhi Courtroom on Saturday remanded accused Swatantra Bhardwaj to someday of police custody in an alleged assault case referring to father of a teenage Cockroach Janta Social gathering (CJP) activist throughout Jantar Mantar protest in July.
Bhardwaj was detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr yesterday hours after the CJP staged a protest outdoors the Parliament Road police station demanding his arrest within the matter.
The Delhi Police yesterday added provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and felony intimidation to the FIR in opposition to Bhardwaj over the alleged assault on the daddy of the minor activist. A POCSO case has additionally been registered in opposition to him.
Bhardwaj was produced earlier than Extra Classes Decide Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler of Patiala Home Courts at his residence at round 2 PM right now.
Advocate Rishav Ranjan, the counsel representing Nishu Azad(sufferer’s daughter), termed the event “unusual”, as he questioned the way by which Bhardwaj was produced earlier than the Courtroom.
“In the present day at Patiala Home Courtroom round 1:45 he was offered earlier than Decide at his residence and particular VC association was executed for him. Decide was not sitting in Courtroom. No concept about which fees are being freshly pressed. No Thought about what number of days of remand was requested by the Police,” he tweeted.
Alternatively, Advocate Umesh Sharma for Bhardwaj informed PTI that originally, the common space Justice of the Peace, whose courtroom usually handles the matter, was on go away and thus, they have been knowledgeable that the accused could be produced earlier than the Hyperlink Justice of the Peace.
“Nevertheless, since sections of the SC/ST Act and POCSO Act have been additionally added, the investigating officer produced him earlier than one other decide, both nearly or in any other case. We have been knowledgeable by the courtroom that he had been remanded to one-day of police custody,” he stated.
Bharadwaj got here beneath scanner after his claims in a video podcast about assaulting the daddy of the CJP protester turned viral. Within the video, he boasted that he had political connections.
