New Delhi: A city court on Friday (December 6) sent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Balyan to seven-day police custody till December 13 in a case related to an alleged organised crimes in which the Delhi Police arrested him on Wednesday.
Special judge Kaveri Baweja sent Balyan to the police custody on a plea filed by the Delhi Police seeking his custody to interrogate him to unearth the larger conspiracy in the case lodged under stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
Delhi Police sought 10-day custody of Balyan
Balyan, who is an AAP MLA from Delhi’s Uttam Nagar Assembly constituency, was produced before the court after expiry of his one day judicial custody in alleged organised crimes case.
The Delhi Police sought ten-day police custody of Balyan, however, the court remanded him to seven-day police custody, news agency PTI reported.
Balyan was arrested in organised crimes case on Wednesday
Balyan was arrested by the Delhi Police in the case registered under the MCOCA on Wednesday while he was in police custody in an alleged extortion case. He was granted bail on Wednesday in the alleged extortion case by a city court, which dismissed the submission of the Delhi Police to send him in judicial custody in the alleged extortion case.
Another court on Thursday dismissed police’s plea seeking 10-day custody of Balyan
Balyan was on Thursday produced before another court earlier in the day and the police sought 10-day custody of Balyan and transfer of the case to a court designated to try MPs and MLAs. The court, however, dismissed the plea of the Delhi Police seeking 10-day custody of Balyan and had granted the police liberty to the investigating officer (IO) of the case to “move an appropriate application before an appropriate court”. The police later produced Balyan during the later half of the day before another court, which sent him to a day’s judicial custody in the alleged organised crimes case.
Balyan was arrested in extortion case on Saturday
Balyan was arrested by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police on Saturday in relation to an audio clip of a conversation purportedly between him and a gangster.
