New Delhi: After being released from Tihar Jail, activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, and Asif Iqbal Tanha said their fight would continue.
While Asif Iqbal Tanha said that fight against CAA, NRC, NPR would continue, Devangana Kalita slammed the Union government, saying it’s trying to suppress dissent and people’s voice.
Student activist Natasha Narwal after walking out of Tihar, said that they received tremendous support inside the jail.
We will also continue our fight for our values: Natasha Narwal
The legal battle will continue. We will also continue our fight for our values, said Narwal.
Earlier today, additional sessions judge at Karkardooma Courts Ravinder Bedi passed the order for releasing the three accused and declined to entertain the plea of Delhi Police seeking more time to verify the documents.
Delhi Police had arrested the three student activists in a larger conspiracy related to the northeast Delhi riots last year, which claimed the lives of 53 people.
Director General (Delhi Prisons) Sandeep Goel confirmed that all three have been released while a senior jail official told PTI that Kalita and Narwal were released around 7 pm and Tanha around 7.30 pm.
‘State has blurred the line between the right to protest and terrorist activity’
The high court, while granting bail to the activists on June 15, observed that “in an anxiety to suppress dissent, the state has blurred the line between the right to protest and terrorist activity”, and if such a mindset gains traction, it would be a “sad day for democracy”.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the high court judgement granting them bail in the case.
All the three activists were booked in FIR no. 59/2020 dated March 3 which was registered initially under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code at Crime Branch Police Station.
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