A Delhi court on Friday sent to 14 days’ judicial custody the man who slapped Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar a week after assaulting former minister Sukh Ram.
Metropolitan magistrate Jasjeet Kaur sent 27-year-old Harvinder Singh to Tihar jail till December 9 after the Delhi police produced him in the court.
He has been charged with assaulting 71-year-old Mr Pawar, a public servant, and threatening him on Thursday, besides trying to kill himself by slashing his wrist with his small kirpan. Singh was remanded to judicial custody after the police pleaded that he has become “a threat to the society” and should not be released.
Inside the court, Singh fearlessly said that once released he would repeat what he did. Remorseless, Singh also shouted slogans like “Bhagat Singh Zindabad, Sukhdev Zindabad” inside the court.
After the court proceedings were over, activists of NCP shouted slogans and blocked traffic outside Patiala House court premises. Later, when the police was escorting him to the court lock-up, around 25 NCP supporters tried to assault him.
The police, however, managed to take him away him to the lock-up.
Police officials persuaded the NCP supporters, who were raising slogans like “Sharad Pawar Zindabad”, to leave the court premises.
Singh had assaulted Mr Pawar when he was coming out of a literary function at a public auditorium on Parliament Street on Thursday.
Singh had attacked former minister Sukh Ram outside a court here last Saturday after he was sentenced to five years in jail in a 1996 corruption case.