Hours after he was granted bail by a Delhi court docket, Punjabi actor-activist Deep Sidhu, who’s an accused within the Red Fort violence case, was arrested once more by the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch on Saturday for allegedly damaging the monument.
On January 26, lots of of protesting farmers at Delhi’s borders jumped barricades and reached ITO and Red Fort the place they hoisted a spiritual flag and clashed with the police. Sidhu was arrested by the Special Cell on February 9 from Karnal Bypass in Haryana. He has been accused of “orchestrating” the violence and “inciting” farmers to march in direction of Delhi -Red Fort, stated the police.
On Friday, a decide granted bail to Sidhu in reference to the Red Fort violence; he was knowledgeable about the identical Saturday morning. However, within the afternoon, a crew of the Crime Branch arrested Sidhu from Tihar Jail in reference to an FIR that was lodged late in January by the Archaeological Survey of India.
A senior police officer from the Crime Branch stated, “During the investigation, we found Sidhu was involved in inciting the mob and also damaged the monument. We arrested him on Saturday.”
The FIR was registered below sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, the Prevention of Insults to National Honours Act and the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, the Arms Act, rioting, and so on. It doesn’t title Sidhu or every other protester.
The complainant, an archaeologist with Archaeological Survey of India, stated a mob of 200-300 protesters got here to Red Fort on the day of the violence.
“The mob turned to wreck the ticket counters, door body steel detectors and the luggage scanners -the total ticketing counter complicated was vandalised… The big iron door inside Lahori Gate was firmly secured with an iron chain and lock. The mob climbed over this iron door and jumped inside and thereafter broke the chain lock with the assistance of iron instruments they’d carried with them… Once inside, a number of the protestors broke {the electrical} fittings of the illumination lights and the stone casing round them.
“Three tractors also managed to make their entry into the Red Fort premises. A section of the mob then charged towards the rampart and forcefully hoisted a flag on the pole where the Hon’ble PM hoists the National Flag on the Independence Day. .. Once atop the fort wall, two or three of them (protesters) tied two flags to the pole. In the process… two of the seven small burjis (domes) were removed … a group of them went to the Interpretation Centre building and damaged some panels on the first floor,” reads the FIR.
