Team Kejriwal may face arrest
28 Aug 2012 8:06 AM IST
All six members of India Against Corruption (IAC) may be arrested by the Delhi police soon.
Police has booked them under the Prevention Of Damage To Public Property Act and the section on Assault On Public Servant, while protesting against the coal scam, on Monday. Police has initiated a probe in the case and sought video footage of the protest from various media houses, to check the visuals of the stand-off between protestors and police.
Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Kumar Vishwas, Gopal Rai, Sanjay Singh and Neeraj Kumar have been named in the police FIR registered at Parliament Street and Tughlak Road police stations.
Sections 48, 49, 186, 353, 147, 148, 149 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) and 3PDPP Act (Prevention of Damage to Public Property) have been slapped against their supporters in connection to the case. Activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan are among those named by the Delhi Police in its FIRs for provoking the protesters during the agitation.
Five cases have been registered at the Tuglaq Road and Parliament Street police stations on Monday, naming Kejriwal, Bhushan, Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas in separate FIRs, a senior police official said. The names of Gopal Rai and Neeraj Kumar were mentioned in one of the FIRs.
974 protesters were detained in connection with the India Against Corruption agitation, in which 21 people, including 15 policemen were injured, the official said. The activists and supporters have been charged under 11 sections of the Indian Penal Code related to rioting, not obeying lawful orders, defying prohibitory orders, assaulting on government servants, provoking people to riot and a section under Prevention of Damage to Public Property – which is a non-bailable offence.
One of the FIRs alleged that Kejriwal provoked slogan-shouting protesters, who were marching towards the Prime Minister's residence. His supporters defied police warnings and entered into a scuffle with policemen, injuring police personnel.
They also punctured tyres of a state-run bus in the middle of the road, causing traffic jam on the stretch, the FIR claimed. In another FIR on an incident near Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's residence, Bhushan, Sisodia and Vishwas were named for allegedly provoking the other protestors. 'Bhushan, Sisodia and Vishwas provoked their supporters and marched towards 10 Janpath. Despite warnings and use of water cannons, the crowd continued forward. Seven teargas shells were lobbed and as it did not help, mild force was used to contain them,' the FIR said.
The FIR alleged that some of the protesters used the staff of the national flags they were carrying to beat the policemen, besides damaging a DTC bus and deflating its tyre.
One of the two FIRs filed at the Parliament Street police station also alleged that people damaged a DTC bus. The FIR alleged that the when the protesters reached Parliament Street police station, they were told to stop but they defied orders and broke three layers of barricade to march towards the Parliament.
Police has booked them under the Prevention Of Damage To Public Property Act and the section on Assault On Public Servant, while protesting against the coal scam, on Monday. Police has initiated a probe in the case and sought video footage of the protest from various media houses, to check the visuals of the stand-off between protestors and police.
Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Kumar Vishwas, Gopal Rai, Sanjay Singh and Neeraj Kumar have been named in the police FIR registered at Parliament Street and Tughlak Road police stations.
Sections 48, 49, 186, 353, 147, 148, 149 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) and 3PDPP Act (Prevention of Damage to Public Property) have been slapped against their supporters in connection to the case. Activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan are among those named by the Delhi Police in its FIRs for provoking the protesters during the agitation.
Five cases have been registered at the Tuglaq Road and Parliament Street police stations on Monday, naming Kejriwal, Bhushan, Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas in separate FIRs, a senior police official said. The names of Gopal Rai and Neeraj Kumar were mentioned in one of the FIRs.
974 protesters were detained in connection with the India Against Corruption agitation, in which 21 people, including 15 policemen were injured, the official said. The activists and supporters have been charged under 11 sections of the Indian Penal Code related to rioting, not obeying lawful orders, defying prohibitory orders, assaulting on government servants, provoking people to riot and a section under Prevention of Damage to Public Property – which is a non-bailable offence.
One of the FIRs alleged that Kejriwal provoked slogan-shouting protesters, who were marching towards the Prime Minister's residence. His supporters defied police warnings and entered into a scuffle with policemen, injuring police personnel.
They also punctured tyres of a state-run bus in the middle of the road, causing traffic jam on the stretch, the FIR claimed. In another FIR on an incident near Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's residence, Bhushan, Sisodia and Vishwas were named for allegedly provoking the other protestors. 'Bhushan, Sisodia and Vishwas provoked their supporters and marched towards 10 Janpath. Despite warnings and use of water cannons, the crowd continued forward. Seven teargas shells were lobbed and as it did not help, mild force was used to contain them,' the FIR said.
The FIR alleged that some of the protesters used the staff of the national flags they were carrying to beat the policemen, besides damaging a DTC bus and deflating its tyre.
One of the two FIRs filed at the Parliament Street police station also alleged that people damaged a DTC bus. The FIR alleged that the when the protesters reached Parliament Street police station, they were told to stop but they defied orders and broke three layers of barricade to march towards the Parliament.
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