Hindutva influencer who allegedly assaulted CJP protester’s father gets interim bail
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A Hindutva influencer who allegedly assaulted the father of a student activist during youth protests was granted three weeks of interim bail on Tuesday, Live Law reported.
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On July 23, Sanjay Kumar, the father of student activist Nishu Aazad, was assaulted at Jantar Mantar during demonstrations against the alleged irregularities in competitive examinations.
Swatantra Bharadwaj, a Hindutva influencer, had been detained on September 4 after a purported video featured him claiming that a phone call from Delhi minister Kapil Mishra helped him avoid arrest over the assault.
The purported video showed him claiming that he had not been jailed despite having “cracked the skull” of Kumar. After it was widely shared, Bharadwaj was booked for causing simple hurt and wrongful restraint.
Following the controversy over the video, members of the Cockroach Janta Party, protested on September 4 outside the Parliament Street police station in Delhi, demanding that charges under provisions relating to attempt to murder be added to the first information report.
After the protest, the police invoked sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act and criminal intimidation, Live Law reported.
Bharadwaj has claimed that he acted in self-defence and had he not done so he could have “lynched by the mob or killed”.
On Monday, the Patiala House Courts reserved the order...