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A Delhi Court on Monday remanded Swatantra Bhardwaj to 14 days of judicial custody in an alleged assault case relating to father of a teenage Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activist during Jantar Mantar protest in July.

Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler of Patiala House Courts passed the order after Bhardwaj was produced in Court on expiry of his one day of police custody.

He was earlier remanded to one day of police custody on Saturday.

He will now be produced before the Court on September 21.

Bhardwaj was detained in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr on Friday, hours after the CJP staged a protest outside the Parliament Street police station demanding his arrest in the matter.

The Delhi Police had then added provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and criminal intimidation to the FIR against Bhardwaj over the alleged assault on the father of the minor activist. A POCSO case has also been registered against him.

Bharadwaj came under scanner after his claims in a video podcast about assaulting the father of the CJP protester became viral. In the video, he boasted that he had political connections.

Swati Khanna, Adv; Mohd. Yasin, Adv; Rishav Ranjan, Adv; Rishabh Singh, Adv; Ayesha Khan, Adv represent the complainant.

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