All India Students' Association (AISA) head Neha Bora on Thursday distanced herself from the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) protest call at Central Park in Delhi's Connaught Place earlier this month.
These comments came amid a hearing in the Delhi High Court, in which she is challenging a notice from a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) court ordering her to furnish a personal bond of ₹10,000, linked to her October 16 detention.
The ₹10,000 personal bond notice, issued to Bora on October 18, cited three reasons: sloganeering at Mandi House, repeated protests around a de-notified Jantar Mantar despite prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS, and instigating people to participate in a protest at Central Park.
It was also linked to a surety that the AISA head would “maintain peace during the period of inquiry".
The Delhi HC case is one of the latest developments in the CJP and AISA's attempts to navigate the aftermath of their recent protest calls against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
Bora's counsel, senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, told the court that both her brief detention, as well as the Delhi Police's bond notice, were "completely illegal", a Bar and Bench report said.
"The only thing that happened was that she raised some slogans and she was detained," her counsel told the court, specifying that she had only called for a protest at Mandi House, while the CP protest was called by "some other organisation".
Notably, both Bora and CJP chief Abhijeet Dipke headlined the press conference ahead of the October 16 Tiranga march protest at Central Park, in which both were detained.
Actor-activist Prakash Raj and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan had also been a part of the presser, which saw discussions on the 'Lehra Do Tiranga' march the next day, the alleged mistreatment of journalists covering the protests, and the Centre's de-notification of Jantar Mantar.
