Delhi pollution protest: Eight students re-arrested soon after getting bail

The Delhi Police on Friday re-arrested eight students, soon after they were granted bail in connection with another case pertaining to a protest against air pollution in the national capital, reported The Indian Express.

After the protest on Sunday, 23 students were detained from India Gate, Kartavya Path and later from outside the Parliament Street police station.

Two first information reports were registered – one against six persons at the Kartavya Path police station and another against 17 persons at the Parliament Street police station.

The cases were initially filed under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to assault, obstruction of public servants and outraging the modesty of women. On Tuesday, the police also added charges pertaining to making assertions prejudicial to national integration to the FIR registered at the Kartavya Path police station.

On Friday, Judicial Magistrate First Class Sahil Monga granted bail to nine of the protesters booked in the FIR registered at the Parliament Street police station, reported The Indian Express.

“The concerns regarding absconding or tampering with evidence can be addressed by imposing reasonable conditions,” Monga was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

He added that the investigation does not require the persons accused in the matter to be in jail.

However, soon after, the police re-arrested eight of those who were granted bail. The ninth student had already been arrested in the FIR at the Kartavya Path police station.

The eight persons were sent to seven days of judicial custody, according to Hindustan Times.

Seven others, who were in judicial custody in connection with the Parliament Street police station FIR and had not been granted bail, were also arrested in the second case, reported The Indian Express.

The students were accused of using criminal force against police personnel and shouting pro-Maoist slogans at the protest at India Gate on Sunday.

Some of the protesters had allegedly used pepper spray on police personnel while being removed from the site, while some had allegedly displayed posters and shouted slogans hailing Maoist leader Madvi Hidma, who was recently killed in a gunfight with security forces.

The protest on November 23 was mainly organised by an environmental research and action collective called Himkhand, student group Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch and the discussion forum Scientists for Society.

Scientists for Society, however, said on November 24 that it joined the protest only on the subject of pollution, and that the agitation was “not the appropriate forum” to discuss Hidma's killing.

Source: Scroll
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