A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita in a first information report filed against her in connectio...
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita in a first information report filed against her in connection with the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act violence in New Delhi in December last year, Bar and Bench reported.
Kalita is already in judicial custody in connection with an FIR registered against her for her alleged role in the anti-CAA protests at Jaffrabad Metro Station in New Delhi in February. On May 30, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police arrested Kalita in the December case. She was subsequently remanded to three days in police custody.
With the custody expiring on June 2, the counsel for the Delhi Police moved an application before Duty Metropolitan Magistrate (Tihar Jail) Abhinav Pandey, seeking to send Kalita to judicial custody for 14 days. The judge granted the request as it was unopposed.
However, immediately thereafter, the counsel for Kalita appeared before the court and moved an application seeking bail. The counsel argued that he could not appear before the court because the investigating officer did not inform the defence about the timing of the hearing.
The court, in its ruling, said that until now, there was no evidence that Kalita engaged in the actions ascribed to her by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police....
