Dipke gets exemption from in-person appearance before magistrate on medical grounds

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has been granted an exemption from appearing in-person before the special executive magistrate (SEM) regarding the preventive inquiry against him.CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke. (File Photo/Vipin Kumar/HT)The SEM at Mandir Marg police station allowed the exemption on Tuesday after Dipke’s counsel, Abhik Chimni, cited medical grounds for his absence. The matter has been posted for December 2 for further proceedings.During the proceedings, Chimni was also provided copies of the “kalandra” (preventive police report) and other legal documents that the Delhi Police relied on to issue Dipke a show-cause notice, asking him to furnish a bond for maintaining peace.ALSO READ: CJP’s Abhijeet Dipke says he spent night at airport on way back from Kochi protestThis development comes weeks after Dipke was granted conditional bail by an SEM following his arrest over an alleged breach of a peace bond he furnished earlier. One principal condition imposed on him was that he must ensure no breach of peace on his part for a period of one year.Dipke was detained on October 16 while heading towards Connaught Place for a protest march called by the CJP under the banner of ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’. The march was called despite a Delhi Police notice asking him not to participate, citing prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).ALSO READ: CJP’s Abhijeet Dipke predicts ‘Modi govt’s defeat in 2029’ at anti-SIR rally in Kochi: ‘He will definitely go’He was subsequently arrested on October 17 for allegedly violating a peace bond furnished on October 10. He was later released on a conditional bail bond by the special executive magistrate. The bond was intended to secure an undertaking from him to maintain peace and prevent any disturbance to public order for a year.