By A Delhi court on Sunday remanded freelance journalist Mandeep Punia, World Health Organization had been picked up at the Singhu protest web site on Saturday evening, in 14 days’ judicial custody, his professional person aforementioned.
Punia’s application for bail are going to be detected on Monday, his lawyer, Akram Khan, said.
Police have suspect Punia of obstructing them within the discharge of their duties and beating police personnel.
According to the FIR, a bunch of protesters “clung to the policemen”, and “one of them dragged Constable Rajkumar towards the protest site”. once police used “minimal force to regulate the situation…the man was dragging our constable fell within the canal”, says the FIR.
“He was known as Mandeep Punia… Punia conjointly the} protesters World Health Organization came beside him stopped-up police personnel in their duty and also thrashed them,” the FIR says.
Police have suspect Punia of obstructing them within the discharge of their duties and beating police personnel.
Khan told The Indian specific that Punia (25) was created before a official within Tihar jail. “We can argue for his bail, that is listed at Rohini court tomorrow,” Khan aforementioned.
In their application for bail, Punia’s lawyers have aforementioned that “no info was given to his members of the family till late last night concerning his detention or attainable arrest”. it had been solely when a fellow journalist reached the police headquarters to file a missing person’s grievance, that some indication was as long as Punia had been detained, they need aforementioned.
The application additionally states that the suspect was “merely closing his print media duties and another journalist was detained beside him however was discharged around time of day (on Saturday)”.
Police have aforementioned that this different journalist, Dharmendra Singh, was allowed to travel when he showed them his press card. Punia’s lawyers have argued that since he (Punia) was a contract journalist, not carrying a press card “can be no grounds for a case or arrest”.
“The offences as alleged within the FIR aren’t created out against him. The FIR was registered at around one.21 am (on Sunday) despite him being allegedly a part of a scuffle at around half dozen.40 pm the previous evening. In such a straightforward case wherever the suspect is allegedly appreciated on the spot and wherever the litigant and alleged victim square measure law enforcement officials, this approximate seven-hour delay must be thought of important,” the bail application states.
Punia has been charged beneath Sections 186 (voluntarily obstructing employee in discharge of public functions), 332 (voluntarily inflicting hurt to discourage employee from his duty), 353 (assault or criminal force to discourage employee from discharge of his duty), and thirty four (acts done by many persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian legal code.
Punia, World Health Organization belongs to Jhajjar in Haryana, graduated from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) throughout 2016-17, and has been writing for The Caravan magazine. He has 3 older sisters, and his mother (76), lives in Jhajjar.
His adult female Leelashree (29), could be a analysis scholar at Panjab University. She was gift throughout a protest at the Delhi police office on Jai Singh Road on Sunday.
“If they begin suppressing their (journalists’) voices, society are going to be suppressed. this can be terribly unfortunate. I got a decision from the police nowadays at ten am that associate FIR has been lodged at Alipur thana. They told ME to induce some garments for him. however why this happened at ten am are a few things I don’t understand…this incident happened around half dozen pm the previous day. I didn’t even understand wherever he was. I got conflicting reports… what’s this however a variety of torture? we’ve hope, though, that things can retrieve,” she said.
Around 50 folks, together with students and journalists, were gift at the protest.
Journalists additionally protested in Panchkula city, and aforementioned they might hold a series of protests against Punia’s arrest. The journalists of Chandigarh and Fatehabad city of Haryana have proclaimed protests on Mon.
Hours before he was detained, Punia had gone survive Facebook alleging that police had allowed men claiming to be locals to pelt the protesters at Singhu with stones on Friday. “Punia’s arrest came hours when he questioned the role of the police,” K B Pandit, president of the Indian Journalists Union, said.
Chandigarh Press Club administrator Saurabh Duggal aforementioned Punia had been reportage on the farmers’ agitation since the start.
