Judicial Custody of Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka (CJP) Ends

The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka are likely to be produced before the Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) at 2 pm on Monday. Their five-day judicial custody ends today. They were sent to judicial custody in the case related to trespassing into Jantar Mantar, which was de-notified as a designated protest site by the government and obstructing police from discharging their duties.

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“I sincerely hope there will be no further delays — no IO switching off phone for hours, no threatening messages, no hearing at 6 PM, no tyre puncture to be not able to produce them. Basically no ‘Upar se orders’,” Singh said in a post on X.

Advocate Abhisht Hela, representing the CJP leaders, had questioned the order sending Das and Ranka to judicial custody, alleging that the authorities had disregarded the law laid down by the Supreme Court.

“The laws laid down by the Supreme Court have been completely disregarded,” Hela had claimed. He said that the order was passed without the application of the judicial mind.