They have been holding protests over alleged electoral fraud for days now. Because he was taken into custody even before he could join Friday’s ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ march at Connaught Place, as opposed to his colleagues Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who were sent to jail for actually having held a protest, sources said on Saturday, cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was released on conditions on Saturday.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were sent to 5-day judicial custody for entering Jantar Mantar despite police orders and trying to disturb the peace; Abhijeet Dipke was released because of a key difference, sources told NDTV.
Dipke was produced before a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) at Mandir Marg on Saturday. He walked out of the Mandir Marg police station soon after the hearing. Das and Ranka were remanded to five days of judicial custody. Das and Ranka were treated as repeat offenders. Why are you (police) carrying out these illegal detentions? These things have been happening in this country for a long time, and this protest movement has clearly shown that such detentions are taking place. It has brought these kinds of detentions to light.
That period ends on Sunday, October 18. He was ordered to furnish a bond of Rs 50,000 and give an undertaking that he would not disturb the peace. Shinde was told to execute a personal bond and surety of Rs 5,000, and was bound down to keep the peace for six months. Das and Ranka’s custody ends on Sunday, October 18. Police said that on the morning of October 13, Das, Ranka, Shinde and 11 other CJP members reached Jantar Mantar by allegedly entering through private property. Two days earlier, on October 11, Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar had issued an order removing the site from the list of designated protest venues. All 14 were detained. Both had signed a one-year peace bond of Rs 50,000 after being detained at an earlier protest in the national capital on October 10. They were found to have violated Section 163 of the BNSS once again, in breach of that bond, according to police sources. “I was detained at Mandi House and kept here (at the police station) the whole night, until 5 am.
In the Das-Ranka-Shinde case, the three faced allegations of trespass, bond violation and obstruction of a public servant’s duty, according to CJP legal head Ratna Singh. The SEM court observed that there was “a serious apprehension” that they could again violate the law and instigate others to do so if released, a Delhi Police press note said. Police personnel tried to stop them, but the protesters allegedly obstructed the officials in the discharge of their duties, police said. They claim that they adhere to law and order and go by the book, but none of that is happening,” Bora told news agency PTI.
Earlier this week, Das and Ranka were sent to five-day judicial custody for allegedly entering Jantar Mantar despite police orders and trying to disturb the peace.
