NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janata Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka walked out of Tihar Jail after on Wednesday after 7 days of judicial custody.Their release was ordered after a special executive magistrate (SEM) court in Delhi accepted the surety bonds. The both were seen smiling as they got into their car as Ranka said “Inquilab Zindabad”.Meanwhile, earlier on their way back fromt he police station to Tihar Jail after the release ordert was given, Das in a brief interaction with media responded saying, “Truth has triumphed.”The CJP founder and leader Abhijeet Dipke shared his reaction to the court’s release order. Taking to his X account, Dipke shared a clip from the climax scene of Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Chak De India. Later called Das and Ranka “much better” than him. “Saurav and Ashu are not just better but much much bigger leaders than me,” he said on X. “Happy to follow your orders my leaders. Jaan hazir hai! Lekin iske baad mere bina garden me koi akela nahi ghumega!!!” he added.
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Earlier in the day, Das andRanka approached the Delhi high court challenging the extension of their custody following a protest at Jantar Mantar. The court questioned why they had invoked its writ jurisdiction when an alternative legal remedy was available. “Your second incident. You are a person who has actually broken a bond. Your remedy actually lies in revision,” the court observed. It also raised concerns that breaching barricades could encourage others to violate prohibitory orders.“When you go and break a barricade, the chances of 10 or 20 more people in violation of 163 are very high,” the court said. The petitioners argued that the Sub-Divisional Executive Magistrate (SEM) lacked jurisdiction to extend their custody and had wrongly rejected their sureties. The court asked them to await the SEM’s decision and pursue the appropriate legal remedy if necessary, following which they withdrew their plea. The bench clarified that it had expressed no opinion on the merits of the case.