Student leader Neha Bora on Saturday said that they will not sign the bond to “maintain peace” that they had been directed to do by a special executive magistrate.
This came a day after the Delhi High Court rejected the petition by the president of the All India Students’ Association challenging the notice to sign the bond.
Bora had been detained on October 16 while participating in a flash protest by the student group near Barakhamba Road demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
The student leader has alleged that they were taken to an undisclosed location and later to the RK Puram Police Station. Bora was held at the police station overnight before being released at 6 am, the following day.
In a notice issued on October 17, the special executive magistrate had directed them to furnish a personal bond of Rs 10,000 with a surety to “maintain peace during the period of inquiry”.
On Saturday, speaking at a press conference at the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation parliamentary office in Delhi, Bora asked whose “peace” they were being asked to keep, reported PTI.
The student leader added that “regardless of the direction” that the protests against Kumar take, they “must not come at the cost of labelling the right to dissent as a...