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Red Fort violence: Was exercising my fundamental right to protest, Deep Sandhu tells court
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Last Updated: Apr 08, 2021, 08:04 PM IST
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Sidhu was arrested on February 9 in connection with the Red Fort violence on the Republic Day during farmers tractor parade against the Centre s three new agri laws. His counsel told Special Judge Neelofer Abida Perveen that Sidhu was rather helping police to pacify the crowd and asking people to come down from the Red Fort.
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The court, however, asked the police to produce the evidence to show that the accused instigated the mob.
Actor-activist Deep Sidhu, arrested in connection with the Red Fort violence on the Republic Day, Thursday told a Delhi court that he did not instigate anyone to cause violence and was only exercising his fundamental right to protest. Sidhu was arrested on February 9 in connection with the Red Fort violence on the Republic Day during farmers tractor parade against the Centre s three
The counsel told the court that the protest was called by various farmers union and that he did not urge anyone to go to the Red Fort. I (accused) am not a member of any farmers union. No call was given by me for any tractor rally or to go to Red Fort. There is no evidence that I mobilised people. I came much later to the Red Fort. I was not present at any of the sites to break the barricade, the counsel for the accused claimed.
The counsel claimed that the accused reached Red Fort only at 12 noon.
File photo of actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu. | PTI
Actor-activist Deep Sidhu, accused of instigating violence at the Red Fort during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day, told a court on Thursday that he happened to be at the “wrong place, at the wrong time”,
Bar and Bench reported.
“Mere presence does not make me part of unlawful assembly,” Sidhu told Additional Sessions Judge
Nilofer Abeeda Parveen through his lawyer. “There has to be common object to commit violence or instigate.”
The judge was hearing Sidhu’s bail petition. The matter was adjourned for hearing to April 12. Sidhu was arrested by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell on February 9. They alleged that the 36-year-old actor entered the Red Fort with swords, sticks and flags on January 26 and gave speeches to incite violence.