00:00And we're getting some breaking news.
00:01The CGP leaders Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkya Shinde are under preventive arrest
00:07and they will be produced before the magistrate shortly.
00:11That's the latest that we are getting after Jantar Mantar breach bid.
00:15The three CGP leaders were arrested yesterday
00:17and they were staging flash protests at the barricaded Jantar Mantar.
00:22Remember, Jantar Mantar has been denotified as a protest site
00:26and the CGP leaders violated the curbs at the denotified protest site
00:30and that is when they were first detained.
00:32Now what we're learning that they are under preventive arrest
00:35and they will be produced before the magistrate shortly.
00:38Remember, we're showing you the visuals which were posted by the CGP itself
00:42in which it can be clearly seen how they were climbing the locked Jantar Mantar gates
00:47after which they were barricading also and after which they were detained by the cops.
00:53Not just these three leaders, there were other CGP workers also along with them.
00:58They were staging a flash protest.
00:59They had the tricolor in their hand
01:01and the caption that they wrote while posting this video was hands of Jantar Mantar.
01:06So they were essentially also protesting not just against the chief election commissioner
01:09but also against the denotification of Jantar Mantar as a protest site.
01:16And now the cops are also probing if the CGP violated the one-year peace bond
01:21that they had signed on Sunday when they were released from detention
01:25after being under detention for more than 20 hours.
01:29And my colleague Amit Bhardwaj is now joining us with more details on this.
01:33Amit, we're learning that these CGP leaders have been placed under preventive arrest.
01:38Now what lies next?
01:39We're learning that they will be produced before the magistrate.
01:42Will they be released or will they be in custody for more time?
01:51Anjali, if you look at the developments last time on 10th of October,
01:55it was a similar turn of events.
01:58The only difference was that Abhijit, Saurabh and Ashutosh were inside Air India aircraft
02:04when the Delhi police picked them up from Delhi airport.
02:07And after that, there were no details of their whereabouts.
02:10The lawyers did not know where exactly they are.
02:13And they did not have their phones either.
02:15And it was only around the same time in the morning when three leaders of the CGP were produced
02:21in front of executive magistrate.
02:23And they were given bail from the police station itself.
02:26Now a similar procedure, SOP seems to be being followed by Delhi police.
02:32Even in this case when Saurabh and Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkai Shinde,
02:36three leaders of the CGP along with their supporters had breezed into Jantar Mantar.
02:40So ideally, you would see any detainees.
02:43Yesterday, we saw many other detainees getting detained by Delhi police,
02:47protesters getting detained by Delhi police.
02:49And they were eventually let go by evening as well.
02:52But in case of CGP leaders, the Delhi police seems to be using this SOP.
02:58So possibly they waited till today morning.
03:02Again, same exercise can be taken over.
03:05Magistrate will be there.
03:06Maybe they could be reprimanded by the magistrate as well as the Delhi police has been claiming
03:10that they had signed a one-year peace bond as well.
03:15That they will not breach peace for at least one year.
03:17Amit, I'll come to that point because there's a lot of confusion over the peace bond.
03:21On one hand, the cops claim that a one-year peace bond was signed by the three leaders,
03:27Dipke, Saurabh Das and Ashutosh Ranka on Sunday.
03:30Whereas the CGP leaders claim that we did not sign any bond and we are free to protest any time.
03:41Right, Anjali.
03:42So that's what I was saying.
03:43The Delhi police is claiming that they have signed a peace bond,
03:46that they would not disrupt peace for one year.
03:49And on the other side, the CGP is saying that we have not signed any such bond.
03:54Now, even in that case, you know, protesting at Jantar Mantar, can that be a breach of peace?
04:02That is the question.
04:03And possibly this will be the argument by the lawyers of CGP as well.
04:07Because they, like many other organizations and pressure groups,
04:12are claiming that they would want unrestrained access to Jantar Mantar like earlier.
04:18And you cannot denotify Jantar Mantar as the protest site.
04:21Why it is being said, even if you look at the argument made by Rahul Gandhi yesterday,
04:27you know, the India block meeting that happened yesterday,
04:29the similar argument was put forward is that Jantar Mantar has to be the place of protest.
04:36You cannot take it away from the people.
04:38So that was also a statement that was being made by Saurabh, Ashutosh, Ajinkayi yesterday
04:44when they raised Jantar Mantar with Tirangas in their hand.
04:47And so, but we'll have to look into this from the legal aspect,
04:51whether Delhi police is making a stronger case against them.
04:54That look, first they were detained, after that they were let go from the police station
05:01by the executive magistrate when they signed a peace bond, which CGP disputes.
05:07And again, they have done the same.
05:09So there could be a possibility of building up a case of a repeat offender in this case.
05:14Back to you.
05:15All right, Amit, thank you for those details.
05:17We'll keep coming back for more updates on this story.
05:20So trouble seems to be mounting for the CGP leaders who have been placed under preventive arrest.
05:26And what we're also learning is that the Delhi police have also registered an FIR against the CGP leaders.
05:32Remember, this comes after there was a breach of barricading that was done at Jantar Mantar,
05:37which has been denotified as a protest site.
05:39But these leaders, along with other CGP workers, tried to enter the Jantar Mantar illegally,
05:46and after which they were detained by the cops.
05:49And now what we're learning is that they have been placed under preventive arrest.
05:53They will be produced before the magistrate shortly.
05:56And a case of trespassing has been registered based on a complaint alleging that these CGP leaders gailed the gates
06:03to enter the JDU office.
06:05Now, CGP founder Abhijit Dipke has alleged that were allegedly illegally detained and even denied access to legal counsel.
06:13Accusing the police of acting like kidnappers, Dipke has also asserted that denotifying the site will not silence them
06:20or erase the democratic impulse driving the movement.
06:50Accusing the police of acting like this is the case.
07:02Thank you so much.
