New Delhi: Delhi University professor SAR Geelani has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a Delhi court on Thursday for being a part of a pro-Afzal Guru event at the Press Club of India in the capital.
Geelani has however, moved for bail and it will be heard on Friday. Geelani was not produced in Patiala House Court due to security reasons. He appeared at the Diplomatic Security Force office instead.
The remand proceedings passed of peacefully far from the Patiala House Courts which was the scene of violence on Monday and Wednesday when a group of lawyers had thrashed journalists and JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar in brazen defiance of Supreme Court order.
Geelani, who was arrested in connection with an event at the Press Club of India here where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised last week, was remanded to judicial custody till March 3 by the magistrate.
He also moved a bail application which will come up for hearing before Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh on Friday. Earlier on Wednesday, not wanting to take any risk, the police approached the magistrate and requested that the remand proceedings be held in a police station away from Patiala House Courts complex.
The violence had triggered nationwide outrage and the Delhi Police had come under criticism for its alleged inaction. A magistrate then went to Chanakyapuri Police Station, about 7 kms away from Patiala House Court, for the hearing when police said Geelani was not required for any further custodial interrogation so he be remanded to judicial custody.
Advocate Satish Tamta, who represented Geelani, moved a bail application on behalf of his client and the magistrate fixed it for hearing on Friday. On February 16, the court had sent Geelani to two-day police custody after the agency had said they required his custodial interrogation to identify those involved in raising anti-India slogans.
With PTI inputs.
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