Sidhu was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Samarjeet Kaur.
Sidhu was arrested by the Delhi Police on 8 February in connection with the Republic Day violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi and later remanded to a seven-day police custody.
The police arrested Sidhu from Karnal in Haryana, while he was waiting for someone to pick him up.
Sidhu faces charges of rioting, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy, dacoity, culpable homicide among others, according to Hindustan Times.
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Events So Far With Sidhu
Sidhu was one of the first celebrity voices at the fore of the farmers’ protest that started in November 2020 against the Centre’s contentious new farm laws.
Sidhu had earlier admitted to raising the Nishan Sahib flag at the Red Fort during the 26 January unrest in Delhi, following which farm union leaders accused him of provoking farmers to change the designated route of the tractor rally and march to the Red Fort.
After a video of Sidhu being chased by protesting farmers at the protest site went viral, he was claimed to be absconding. However, according to reports, Sidhu told the police that the reason for him having been in hiding was because “his life was at risk”.
(With inputs from Live Law and Hindustan Times)
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