Deep Sidhu Arrested In Another Case Hours After Delhi Court Granted Him Bail

Hours after Delhi Court granted bail to Deep Sidhu in connection with the Red Fort violence case, he has been rearrested on Saturday in an FIR lodged on the complaint filed by Archaeological Survey of India alleging damage to the historic monument and vandalism by rioters.

The said FIR has been registered under sec. 147, 148, 149, 153, 452, 34 of IPC along with sec. 25, 27 of Arms Act, Sec. 3, 4 of PDPP Act, Sec. 2 of Prevention of Insults to National Honours Act and Sec. 30A, 30B of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act.

The FIR has been registered on the basis of a complaint made by Gunjan Kumar Srivastava, Superintendent Archaeologist alleging that a mob barged inside the Lahore Gate, damaged electrical fittings of illuminated lights, charged towards the Red Fort rampart and forcefully hoisted a flag on the pole where the Hon'ble PM hoists Indian National Flag on independence day.

Stating that Red Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage Monument which is protected under the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, the FIR alleges that on the Republic Day at around 12:10 PM, about 25 tractors and 200-300 protestors entered Gyanpath area through Netaji Subhas Marg and attempted to push their way into the Red Fort through the Lahori Gate. 

The development came after Additional Sessions Judge Neelofer Abida Perveen granted bail to Sidhu in another FIR registered against him in the Red Fort Violence case in connection with he violence that broke out during the farmer's tractor rally on Republic Day. While granting bail, the Court observed thus:

"The prosecution's case rests largely and on contents of video recordings and footage available and accessible to all on social media sites in public domain. There is a remote possibility of applicant being able to interfere with the content on such platform." 

Bail was granted subject to his furnishing personal bond with two local sureties in the sum of Rs. 30,000/- each to the satisfaction of the Court.