New Delhi:Delhi high court sent Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and 95 others, arrested on charges of rioting and unlawful assembly following a violent protest in Tughlakabad area, to 14-day judicial custody on Thursday.
They were detained on Wednesday night after the protest against the demolition of a Ravidas temple and an FIR was registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code at Govindpuri police station.
On August 10, the temple in Jahanpanah Forest was removed by DDA on the direction of the Supreme Court. A boundary wall was erected on the lane that led to the temple, police said.
Police said more than 10,000 people had assembled at Ramlila Maidan to demand that a temple be constructed at the same site from where it was removed. But during the protest, nearly 5,000 people led by Azad made a plan to march towards the temple site.
Some of them had sticks and rods with flags fixed on them, the FIR stated.
They were raising slogans against the government and the Supreme Court.
When the protesters reached near Tara Apartment Red Light at 7.15pm, they demanded to go towards the spot but were told to not march towards the site of the demolished temple.