Patiala House Court sent five Youth Congress workers arrested for protesting at the AI Summit to police custody for 3 days.
These accused will be produced again in Patiala House Court on March 1. Out of these five accused, three Youth Congress workers arrested from Shimla are Saurabh, Arbaaz and Siddharth while two already arrested accused are Ajay and Raja Gurjar.
More than 1 lakh T-shirts were printed – Delhi Police
Delhi Police told the court that Youth Congress worker Siddharth had designed the T-shirt. Whereas Saurabh Singh had created a WhatsApp group for the protest. Saurabh and Siddharth did not go inside. Arbaaz Khan had gone inside to perform. Police say that more than one lakh T-shirts were printed by the accused. According to the investigating agency, all the people involved in the case are said to be associated with the Congress party.
‘Custody necessary to investigate funding conspiracy’
The police told the court that police custody of the accused is necessary to investigate the conspiracy, funding and role of other people in the case. Delhi Police told the court that it is necessary to interrogate all the accused face to face in the case, for which police custody is required. Delhi Police said that these people were continuously hiding from the police and they have no fear of the law.
The defense side gave this argument
The defense lawyer said, no hate speech was given. Claimed that people associated with the youth wing of the opposition party are being politically targeted. According to the lawyer of Youth Congress, whatever demonstration took place is in front of everyone. Are these people being targeted? 11 people have already been arrested. All the footage is there, there are videos, what is their crime? Were just demonstrating. If you see the FIR, it is similar to the JNU case… only piecemeal FIR is being implemented here, those youth were protesting against the paper leak. They are making a mockery of legal principles. The police were opposed by the accused.
