New Delhi, June 05: Twenty-five people, arrested yesterday for rioting and damaging properties during a day-long shut down here demanding ST status for Gurjars, were sent to 14 days' judicial custody by a Delhi court Tuesday.
The persons, nabbed from Mehrauli area in south Delhi here during their violent protest, were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate B K Gautam who sent them to jail till June 18.
The vacation court, however, deferred the hearing on their bail plea for tomorrow saying they can be heard by the concerned judge only.
Meanwhile, SHO of Mehrauli police station informed the court that 15 others, who were also part of the rampaging mob, have been identified and may be arrested soon.
Those arrested have been booked under various sections including 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with deadly weapons), 353 (assaulting public servant on duty) and 427 (damage to property) of the IPC.
Gurjars had yesterday resorted to a day-long bandh in the national capital territory in support of their community's ongoing protest in Rajasthan demanding Scheduled Tribe status there.
The protest turned violent at various places when they torched vehciles, pelted stones at police and laid siege of all major roads leading to Delhi during the 'bandh'.
Six persons and three policemen were injured in stone-pelting and subsequent baton charge in Mehrauli, while a policeman and a rickshaw driver were injured in Khajoori Khas area in northeast Delhi.
As many as 24 buses belonging to Delhi Transport Corporation were damaged and three were torched by protesters.
Bureau Report
