The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the Delhi Police not to arrest Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy till January 30 in a case of his writing an alleged inflammatory article in a daily.
Justice M.L. Mehta granted the protection subject to Dr. Swamy filing an affidavit saying that he would not write such an article in future.
“We are a secular country and we should respect the system which we have. It is not a European country like Britain. We have diversity and we should be proud of it,” Justice Mehta observed while granting relief to Dr. Swamy.
While seeking anticipatory bail for Dr. Swamy, counsel submitted that the city police had registered the case to harass him as he had exposed the 2G scam. Dr. Swamy had written the article based on a self-written book six years ago. There was no protest against the book in the preceding years but the Delhi Police registered a case when he exposed the 2G scam, counsel said.
Dr. Swamy had moved the court for anticipatory bail on Thursday.
The Crime Branch filed the case in October last year for writing the article accusing him of spreading communal disharmony. However, Dr. Swamy had denied all the charges levelled in the first information report (FIR).
The court issued a notice to the police asking them to file a reply to the anticipatory bail application by January 30, the next date of hearing.
