Delhi Court Grants Bail to Congress Workers in AI Summit Protest Case
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A Delhi court granted bail to nine Indian Youth Congress workers who were arrested in connection with a shirtless protest at the AI summit.
The court ruled that the protest was a 'symbolic political critique' and pre-trial detention could amount to 'pre-emptive punishment', news agency PTI reported.
Judicial Magistrate First Class Ravi passed the order on Sunday while hearing the bail pleas of the nine accused.
The court noted that the pre-trial detention would be 'a profound aberration fundamentally at odds with the bedrock axioms of criminal jurisprudence', which exalt liberty as the governing norm and incarceration as the narrowly circumscribed exception.
The Delhi police, opposing the bail pleas, submitted that the Constitution grants the right to peaceful protest, 'but there are also certain conditions'. However, the court did not agree with the submissions.
