On Saturday, sixth May 2023, Times Now journalist Bhawana Kishore and two others have been granted interim bail by the Punjab and Haryana extreme courtroom. Earlier inside the day, a lower courtroom dominated that Bhawana Kishore be remanded to police custody for 14 days. But the extreme courtroom intervened on this matter and granted interim bail to Bhawana Kishore, video journalist Mritunjay Kumar and driver Parminder who’ve been arrested by the Punjab Police in a avenue accident case whereas defending an AAP event on Friday, May 5.
In a extraordinarily questionable switch, Punjab Police have slapped the SC/ST Atrocities Act as a result of caste of the woman injured inside the accident.
A plea was filed inside the extreme courtroom by the channel in opposition to the arrest. Advocate Pawan Narang represented Times Network.
According to Bhawana Kishore’s lawyer Chetan Mittal, the courtroom prima facie agreed that this case is faux. Granting interim bail, the extreme courtroom listed the matter for Monday, saying that the state can place its arguments on Monday. “Whatever objection the state is having, that case will be heard on Monday,” the courtroom talked about.
#DeshKiBetiBhawana
Punjab and Haryana High Court grants interim bail to @BhawanaKishore
Earlier on Friday, Kishore along with video journalist Mritunjay Kumar and driver Parminder have been arrested by the Punjab Police whereas defending an AAP event.@Roypranesh pic.twitter.com/uZ4vYwcBqk
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Bhawana Kishore’s lawyer Chetan Mittal talked about, “We approached the high court for quashing the FIR against and granting bail to the Times Now correspondent Bhawana Gupta and the other two. We received a copy of the FIR after the custody order was given in the afternoon. We contended to quash the FIR and get interim bail. We told the high court that even a single minute of custody on the basis of the allegations mentioned in the FIR is illegal. No offence as per the SC/ST Act occurs as per the allegations in the FIR. Even if the allegations attributed to them are considered true for the sake of argument, none of the allegations can be proved as required by section three of the act. There is a ruling by the Supreme Court that immediate bail should be given to any illegal bail. The court heard the case on merits and granted interim bail to petition till Monday.”
#DeshKiBetiBhawana will get interim bail.@BhawanaKishore was getting panic assaults. We insisted that she have to be granted bail…The frequent bail plea shall be heard on Monday: Chetan Mittal (Bhawana’s lawyer) speaks to @Gurpreet_Chhina pic.twitter.com/oSRX30I2wA
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) May 6, 2023
He extra talked about, “We were saying that she is a lady who is getting panic attacks. She has been suddenly put to such jail in the evening. The way they have treated her, the FIR is also not being given. Then they said that we will confirm whether there is such a situation. They came back. they said that the medical test we have got it done and there is nothing in it. We said the way they have attributed the false allegations against her, in the same way, they will get the medical done. We said that if not the other two men at least this lady should be granted the bail being a woman only. So it will be heard on Monday. The main petition as well as the interim bail of the other two people.”
The Punjab police Friday arrested Times Now Navbharat journalist Bhawana Kishore in a rash driving case. The police arrested her and two completely different crew members Mrityunjay Kumar and Parminder Singh. The police invoked provisions of the stringent SC/ST Act along with diverse sections of the IPC in opposition to the scribes.
According to the police, the arrest was made after a girl was injured on her correct hand when the car they’ve been travelling in collided collectively together with her. According to the authorities, the trio was moreover charged with abusing the sufferer with casteist slurs. The police registered a case in opposition to the scribes beneath Sections 279, 337 and 427 of the IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the SC and ST Act.
Following the arrest, Times Now alleged that their reporter has been falsely implicated in an SC-ST case by the Ludhiana police. The channel moreover talked about that she was not driving the car and is not chargeable for the accident. Bhawana was arrested whereas she was on her resolution to report the inauguration of Mohalla Clinics by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.
The channel, hinting at an alleged witchhunt launched in opposition to them by the Aam Aadmi Party after their present “Operation Sheesh Mahal” expose in opposition to their supremo Arvind Kejriwal, talked about that Bhawana was taken away in a vehicle by a male cop sooner than a flimsy FIR was filed in opposition to her in Ludhiana’s Section 3 Division Police Station. It was moreover well-known that the talked about cop was not carrying a nameplate displaying his title whereas taking Bhavana.