15 held in Daryaganj sent to 2-day judicial custody

NEW DELHI: After late Friday night’s developments regarding the Daryaganj incident, wherein several were detained and lawyers had to go to a judge’s house to secure an order, 15 arrested persons were produced before a court which remanded them to two days’ judicial custody on Saturday.
Appearing for the 15 men, senior advocate Rebecca John opposed the request of judicial remand and sought bail.Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was until then not produced in court. His counsel Mehmood Pracha said that the police ought to inform about his client's whereabouts as he wasn't sure if he was even “dead or alive”. Azad was later produced in an “in-camera” proceeding and remanded to 14 days judicial custody.
The senior advocate also asked if there was any statement in the FIR which implicated all these men. “Have they blindly arrested them? There’s a juvenile among them. This is gross misuse of law,” said John. She also argued that all offences mentioned in the FIR were bailable except Section 436 of the IPC.
John argued that a car outside the police station was set on fire but how was the police justified in invoking Section 436? “You want to scuttle their right. Most of them are in between 22 and 25 years of age. They all had gone to the mosque for Friday prayers. How can the police attribute a role to each individual?” she submitted.
Meanwhile, some lawyers had approached the chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Arul Varma at his residence seeking directions to be issued to police authorities to let the advocates be allowed to meet all those detained at the Daryaganj police station. Advocates Adit S Pujari and Viren Bansal informed Varma that some of the injured detainees were in urgent need of medical aid.
The CMM then ordered the police to provide necessary medical aid. In case of minors, judge Varma in a handwritten order said, “Detention of minor in a police station is a flagrant violation of law. The law is well settled in this regard.”