A court in Delhi on Monday rejected the police’s petition seeking four-day custody of actor-activist Deep Sidhu in connection with the sec...
A court in Delhi on Monday rejected the police’s petition seeking four-day custody of actor-activist Deep Sidhu in connection with the second complaint filed against him for the violence at the Red Fort in January, Live Law reported. Instead, the court sent him to judicial custody for 14 days.
On April 17, Sidhu had been granted bail in the first FIR lodged in connection with the violence that took place at the monument during the farmers’ Republic Day tractor rally. However, he was arrested hours later in a complaint filed by the Archaeological Survey of India for damage to the Red Fort.
During the hearing of the case on Monday, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gajendra Singh Nagar said there were no grounds for the police to seek Sidhu’s remand for four days.
Sidhu, while opposing the police’s petition for his custody, had accused them of “acting like emperors”. He also demanded departmental action against them.
Abhishek Gupta, the actor’s lawyer, told the court that his client was granted bail in the first case on merit and demanded his immediate release.
The lawyer added that the allegations in both the FIRs were identical. He said that the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police has already done custodial interrogation in the first FIR and that the...
