Eight students arrested during the pollution protest at Delhi’s India Gate on Sunday were sent to judicial custody after their bail applications were rejected by a Delhi Court on Saturday.
After the protest on Sunday, 23 students were detained at India Gate and Kartavya Path, and later 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. However, eight of them were later re-arrested.
The Delhi Police, in its remand application, has alleged that 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.
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