New Delhi: Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad, who was arrested during an anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protest in Old Delhi’s Daryaganj, was released from Tihar Jail on Thursday night.
Aazad’s was arrested after the Bhim Army organised a march from Jama Masjid to Jantar Mantar against the Act December 20. The police said the march did not have permission. He was sent to judicial custody on December 21.
On Wednesday, a Delhi court had granted bail to Aazad but restrained him from visiting Delhi for four weeks and directed him not to hold any dharna till the elections in the national capital.
Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau had granted the relief to Aazad on furnishing a bail bond of Rs 25,000.
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While granting bail to Azad on Wednesday, the judge recited Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ and said citizens have a fundamental right to peaceful protest which cannot be curtailed by the state.
“I am reminded of our reverend patriotic poet Rabindranath Tagore who is most relevant today. He during the colonial era in the early 1900’s when the British followed the policy of Divide and Rule, visualised a nation where there is no fear in the minds people and education is attained by all; people are enlightened and do not create walls of discrimination,” she had said.