India Gate protest: 8 arrested in fresh case
NEW DELHI, Nov. 29 -- Police on Friday arrested eight persons in connection with the violence that took place during pollution protests at the India Gate, hours after the eight were granted bail in another case linked to the same incident.
Following the rearrest, the eight persons were produced before judicial magistrate Aridaman Singh Cheema of the Patiala House Courts. Delhi Police moved an application for two-day police custody, but the court sent all eight to seven days of judicial custody.
Two FIRs have been lodged in the matter. The first, at the Kartavya Path police station, names eight students, including a minor, under sections related to assault on public servants, criminal conspiracy, molestation, obstructing police, disobedience of orders, and BNS Section 197 (imputations prejudicial to national integration), which was added later.
The counsels for the eight students, however, contended that the arrest was a "ploy" by the Delhi Police just to keep the accused students in jail despite them being granted bail in the said case they were initially arrested....
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