Earlier in the day, Additional Sessions Judge Neelofer Abida Parveen had granted bail to Sidhu on a bail bond of Rs 30,000 and two sureties of the like amount.
During sustained interrogation, he revealed that he ran that news channel on which there's a 1 hr 15 min live. After the arguments, the court sent Singh to seven days police custody and directed them to produce him before the court next on February 18.
A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court by the family of Navreet Singh, the farmer who allegedly died due to overturning of the tractor during the tractor rally on January 26.
The Uttar Pradesh Police has registered an FIR against The Wire‘s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan for tweeting about a story on The Wire in which the family of a deceased farmer who died during the tractor rally claimed that he was shot dead by police.
The miscreants attacked the police and paramilitary personnel deployed with rods, swords and sticks. They then broke into the Red Fort complex with tractors. There is no part left here that has not been damaged, the press release said.