Delhi Police transfer CJP leaders’ trespassing case to Crime Branch after custody extension

The Delhi Police on Monday transferred the case against Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka over alleged trespassing at Jantar Mantar to the Crime Branch for further investigation, shortly after their judicial custody was extended by two days, reported news agency PTI quoting police sources.

The case has been assigned to the Inter State Cell of the Crime Branch. The police had registered two FIRs in connection with the protest, one at Connaught Place police station and another at Parliament Street police station, invoking provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) relating to disobedience of a public servant’s order, trespass, obstruction of public servants, assault, causing hurt and criminal conspiracy.

Das and Ranka were sent to judicial custody on October 14 by a Special Executive Magistrate over allegations that they trespassed through private premises to reach Jantar Mantar, which had been denotified as a designated protest site a day earlier, and violated bonds requiring them to maintain peace.

Their associate Ajinkya Shinde was bound down to maintain peace and good behaviour for six months and released on a personal bond and a surety of Rs 5,000.