On Tuesday (9th December), a Delhi court granted bail to 10 people arrested for raising pro-Naxal slogans during the ‘anti-pollution’ protests at the India Gate.
Judicial Magistrate First Class Aridaman Singh Cheema of the Patiala House Courts bail to 10 accused persons named Aatreya Chaudhary, Prakash Kumar Gupta, Vishnu Tiwari, Shreshth Mukund, Banka Akash, Ahan Arun Upadhyay, Satyam Yadav, Tanya Srivastava and Samir Fayis.
With regard to the bail plea of one Banka Akash, the court said, “Perusal of the record reveals that the CCTV footages and video clips of the incident/protest are already available to investigating agency. The mobile phones of the accused has been seized by the police. Nothing has been discovered against the accused qua the membership of Radical Organizations related to Naxalites. No purpose shall be served by keeping the accused in the JC [Judicial Custody].”
The court, however, denied bail to one of the accused Ikaliya.
It must be recalled that on 23rd November, an anti-pollution protest in Delhi resulted in violence against the police, including the use of chili spray, which led to the filing of an FIR and the arrest of 15 individuals by the authorities. The demonstration which was purportedly aimed at advocating for clean air was quickly revealed to be aligned with a leftist agenda perpetrated by bsCEM (Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch), its leaders like Ravjot Kaur and The Himkhand, as the deceased Maoist commander Madvi Hidma was eulogised by the participants. His posters were displayed and slogans such as “Comrade Hidma Amar Rahe” were chanted.
