Delhi police files FIR against 22 people from INDIA bloc rally who went near Jantar Mantar | India News

The Delhi police registered an FIR against the 22 protesters detained at Minto Road during the INDIA bloc rally from Ramlila Maidan towards Jantar Mantar on Sunday, police said on Tuesday.

Police did not share the exact number of people who attended the rally, but estimates suggest around 50,000 supporters turned up. (ANI)Leaders from the INDIA bloc held a massive rally at Ramlila Maidan against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday over alleged irregularities in the functioning of the Election Commission of India and the special intensive revision.

Police did not share the exact number of people who attended the rally, but estimates suggest around 50,000 supporters turned up. Officials said while the Ramlila Maidan event had permission, students started going towards Jantar Mantar, which is no longer a protest area

Police said the rally was taken out by members of the Disha Students’ Organisation and the Revolutionary Workers’ Party of India (RWPI) on Sunday around 5 pm. According to the cops, local staff, along with paramilitary forces, stopped the protesters at Minto Road and took them in two buses to Dwarka Sector 23 and Jafarpur Kalan police stations.

Those taken to the two stations were released by 2 am on Monday.

The FIR was registered under Sections 223(a), 132, 221, 121(1), 3(5) and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), relating to offences including disobedience of orders, assault or criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging their duty, obstruction of a public servant, voluntarily causing hurt, common intention and criminal conspiracy.

He was produced before the Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) at Mandir Marg on Monday and asked to execute a peace bond. He refused and was subsequently released after furnishing sureties and signing a personal bond.

Members of the organisations alleged that the police dragged protesters, including women, into the buses and that one woman fainted during detention.

“Vishal, an artist and activist affiliated with the Revolutionary Workers' Party of India (RWPI), was taken in for 23 hours of detention, where he was even denied basic medication. Vishal was part of a peaceful march from Ramleela Maidan to Jantar Mantar, led by RWPI and Disha Students' Organisation, with slogans demanding the reclamation of Jantar Mantar as a protest site and the scrapping of SIR,” Suraj Rait, a member of RWPI, said.

Jignasa Sinha is a Special Correspondent at Hindustan Times in New Delhi. With more than six years of reporting experience, she covers crime and policing in the national capital. Her beats also include Delhi prisons, the Delhi Fire Services and Delhi courts, while she regularly reports on gender, labour and social justice. Over the course of her career, Jignasa has reported on major criminal investigations, international crime syndicates, high-profile cyber fraud cases, law-and-order developments, protests, disasters and public institutions. Her reporting combines breaking news with in-depth, long form, human interest stories that examine the human impact of public policy, policing and the criminal justice system. In addition to reporting for the newspaper, she contributes to the Hindustan Times website and app, and plays an active role in coordinating on-ground coverage of major developments and breaking news across Delhi. Before joining Hindustan Times, Jignasa worked at The Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi, where she spent five years covering crime, Delhi airport, courts and health. She began her journalism career as an intern at an AI magazine in Bengaluru while pursuing her postgraduate diploma in multimedia journalism at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media.Read More