INDORE: A lower court in Ujjain district on Friday sent Congress leader Jai Singh Darbar to police remand for a day in connection with an assault on BJYM activists during Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh's visit to that district. Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), R K Patidar sent Darbar to police custody after the law enforcers pleaded that they needed him for questioning and recovering the arms used in the assault. Madhya Pradesh High Court's Indore bench on July 12 had stayed Darbar's arrest till August 26 and directed him to take regular bail on Ujjain lower court while hearing his plea. The single bench of of Justice Shubdha Waghmare in its order had asked the lower court to decide Darbar's regular bail on merits.
Former Corporator Darbar turned up to apply for the regular bail but the police opposed it stating that they need him for interrogation and recovery of weapons used in the violence on July 17. Darbar counsels contented that their clients has been falsely implicated in the case due to political reasons and no criminal case was pending against him. Darbar along with former corporators Ananth Narayan Meena, Mukesh Bhati and former Ujjain City Youth Congress chief Aslam Lala have been charged under section 307 IPC for attacking Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists who were showing black flag to Singh on July 17.
The high court had stayed the arrest of Meena, Bhati and Lala till September 2 and asked them to apply for regular bail in the Ujjain Lower court in the meantime, Ujjain's Jiwajiganj police station house officer (SHO) S N Tiwari said.
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