TWO males had been detained and questioned for eight hours by way of Saturday-Sunday evening and three girls for at the least three hours Sunday morning by the Delhi Police — all as a result of they had been heard saying “Pakistan Zindabad” as a part of a biking sport close to Khan Market Metro station late Saturday evening.
Their ordeal, that began at 1 am on Sunday, ended solely by midday with the police admitting that “Pakistan Zindabad” was mentioned in a “lighter vein”, and no case was made out.
Ahead of Republic Day, police mentioned, they had been on “high alert” after they obtained a name round 1 am a few “group shouting slogans, praising Pakistan”.
An enquiry officer was despatched to the spot. “Two families (one from Delhi, the other from Gurugram) along with their child had come to India Gate Saturday night. They had rented Yulu bikes they were racing, and they had named each other after countries like India, Pakistan, Japan and Australia. They were cheering each other on by shouting these names when some locals heard them shout, ‘Pakistan zindabad’,” mentioned Eish Singhal, DCP (New Delhi and PRO).
During interrogation on the Tughlaq Road police station, police discovered the household had “named” the 14-year-old boy “Pakistan” in the course of the sport.
“When the boy was slow, others, which included his parents, shouted ‘Pakistan haar gaya… peechhe reh gaya,’ and when the boy started speeding, they cheered him with ‘Pakistan Zindabad’,” mentioned the officer.
The two males within the group – certainly one of them is the boy’s father — had been detained by the police for eight hours, earlier than being allowed to depart at round 9 am Sunday.
The three girls and the kid had been additionally taken to the police station at evening however allowed to go dwelling. The girls, together with the kid’s mom, had been once more known as to the police station between 8 and 9 am and let go at midday.
Officials of the Special Cell and Intelligence Bureau had been concerned throughout questioning, mentioned sources.
Singhal mentioned, “They were cheering and said Pakistan zindabad in a lighter vein.”
