New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on wednesday restrained the West Bengal Police from executing an arrest warrant issued by a Darjeeling court against radio jockey Janardhan Nitin Brady, whose comments on Indian Idol Prashant Tamang sparked large-scale violence in Siliguri recently.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan asked the state police not to arrest the Delhi-based jockey till November 19, the day it hears his appeal against the order of the Calcutta High Court rejecting his anticipatory bail plea.
Senior advocate U U Lalit and Ajoy Roy mentioned the Special Leave Petition (SLP) before the Bench contending that he was entitled for the grant of anticipatory bail. Brady had allegedly made some derogatory comments against Tamang on September 24 during a programme of an FM channel aired in Delhi, which enraged the Nepalese community in Darjeeling district from where the Indian idol hails. The jockey has been accused of inciting violence under section 153A of IPC.
His lawyers said Brady had approached the High Court for anticipatory bail as he had never made the statements being attributed to him by media reports. The army and BSF had to be called in to control the violence in Siliguri after Tamang's fans and local people clashed and torched several cars in September.
The town had virtually turned into a battleground with thousands of people getting involved in the clashes. Police had failed to bring the situation under control and the army had to be called to restore normalcy.
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