October 13: leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party were detained after allegedly entering the Jantar Mantar area.
October 14: a Special Executive Magistrate sent two leaders to judicial custody.
October 19: the magistrate extended custody by two days, and the case was transferred to the Crime Branch’s Inter State Cell.
Two FIRs are involved, with sections on trespass, conspiracy and obstructing public servants.
The leaders have not been found guilty.
The transfer came shortly after the leaders’ judicial custody was extended by two days, according to police sources quoted in the reports.
The reports differ somewhat on whether the transfer came before or after the extension of custody, though most say it came shortly after.
The two leaders were produced before a newly appointed Special Executive Magistrate at the Mandir Marg police station on Monday and sent to judicial remand for two more days, according to ThePrint.
Onmanorama reports that the custody was extended until October 21 and that the magistrate rejected the sureties offered for their release.
According to that report, one surety’s photograph did not match the image on the Aadhaar card, and another surety’s documents lacked basic details, including parentage.
The party’s leaders were detained on October 13 after allegedly entering the Jantar Mantar area, and reports say they raised slogans against the Chief Election Commissioner and unfurled the national flag, according to ThePrint.
On October 14, a Special Executive Magistrate sent the two leaders to judicial custody, according to the same report.
Police allege that they trespassed through private premises to reach Jantar Mantar, which had been de-notified as a protest site a day earlier, and that they violated bonds requiring them to keep the peace.
Delhi Police allege that the protesters obstructed police personnel from discharging their duties, according to ThePrint.
Two FIRs are involved, according to ThePrint. The Connaught Place police station FIR invokes Sections 223A, 332 and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
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