NEW DELHI: A special executive magistrate on Monday extended the judicial custody of Cockroach Janata Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das by two days.According to their lawyer, their bail surety was rejected due to a reported mismatch in documents. They will now be produced on Wednesday.CJP leaders Das and Ranka, along with 12 party members, allegedly trespassed into Jantar Mantar, which is no longer a designated protest venue, and obstructed police personnel on duty.The development comes amid allegations by the CJP that the bail proceedings in the case have been deliberately delayed to prevent the release of its two convenors, who were sent to five-day judicial custody on October 13 following a protest at Jantar Mantar.
Share your thoughts in the comments
Be respectful · TOI community guidelines
On Sunday, the special executive magistrate, hearing their bail matter, had claimed that unknown persons were threatening him, following which the police registered a non-cognisable report.In a post on X, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke had alleged, “The state is deliberately prolonging Ashu and Saurav’s illegal arrest by using every dirty trick in the book to delay court proceedings and prevent their release.“They have no legal grounds to keep them behind bars, so they are resorting to delaying tactics to keep them there.”The CJP also alleged that bail sureties for the release of its leaders had been rejected on “vague” grounds.
