CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke has been put under preventive arrest while All India Students Association chief Neha Bora was released on Saturday morning. Bora was taken into custody ahead of the ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ protest march on Friday by the Delhi Police.
Dipke will will be produced before the Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) court later in the day. He was arrested under Sections 126 and 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) in connection with the apprehension of a breach of peace. Bora who was detained under Section 65 of the Delhi police Act was released after completing the formalities.
CJP legal head, Ratna Singh allegedly claims that lawyers havent met him yet and that his detention ‘location’ is unknown.
“Abhijeet is arrested & will be produced before SEM court. His location still unknown, lawyers haven’t met,” Singh wrote on X.In another post, Singh said that Dipke would be produced before the court at 12:00 pm today.
The satirical party also claimed that Dipke had been taken to an undisclosed location and that the party had been unable to contact him. The AISA, meanwhile, alleged that Bora was being held alone at the Anti-Narcotics Task Force in Mangolpuri.
The CJP, Opposition parties, student groups and civil society organisations have staged protests in several parts of India demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged irregularities in electoral rolls and the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.