Jantar Mantar Sloganeering Case- Hindu Raksha Dal Chief Bhupinder Tomar surrenders
New Delhi, August 31
Hindu Raksha Dal chief Bhupinder Tomar alias Pinky Chaudhary surrendered before the Delhi Police for his alleged involvement in raising hate slogans at Jantar Mantar.
Ironically, Pinky surrendered at Delhi's Mandir Marg police station and arrived on the shoulders of his supporters who were cheering for him with slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
Chaudhary was evading arrest after videos surfaced of him and other protesters allegedly shouting communal slogans on August 8. The protesters, however, claim that they demanded the removal of ‘colonial-era’ laws.
Tomar had reportedly released a video on August 30 announcing that he will surrender to the Delhi Police.
In the video he maintained that he and his supporters did not do anything wrong in his video. “I am firm on my point that neither I nor any worker of my organisation did anything wrong at Jantar Mantar. I respect the court. I will get myself arrested tomorrow, on August 31, around 12pm at Connaught Place police station and will cooperate with police during the probe,”
Uttam Upadhyay, BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, Preet Singh, Deepak Singh, Deepak Kumar, Vinod Sharma, Vinit Bajpai and Sushil Tiwari were among the others arrested for allegedly chanting communal slogans and defying Covid-19 protocols along with Pinky.
Tomar and others had organised a ‘Bharat Jodo Andolan’ rally on August 8 at Jantar Mantar during which communal slogans were allegedly chanted.
