New Delhi. Delhi High Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to YouTuber Ajit Bharti in the SC/ST Act case. This case has been registered against Ajit Bharat for his comments against Bhim Army Chief and MP Chandrashekhar. Rejecting the anticipatory bail plea of Ajit Bharti, Justice Saurabh Banerjee said that prima facie a case of offense under Section 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the SC/ST Act is made out against the petitioner. Let us tell you that Section 3(1)(r) deals with deliberately insulting or intimidating people of SC/ST community with the intention of humiliating them. Whereas Section 3(1)(s) deals with abusing a member of the SC/ST community in the name of his caste.
Earlier, Delhi High Court had reserved its order on the petition on September 16 after completing the arguments of all the parties. While giving its verdict today, the High Court rejected Ajit Bharti's petition. After MP Chandrashekhar lodged a complaint, Ajit Bharti had first gone to the trial court for anticipatory bail. But his petition was rejected from there. After this Bharti approached the High Court but was disappointed there too. During the hearing of the case, Delhi Police had opposed the anticipatory bail plea of Ajit Bharti.
In the last hearing, Ajit Bharti's lawyer had argued in the court that my client did not make derogatory remarks intentionally, hence the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, does not apply in this case. A case was registered against Ajit Bharti under the SC/ST Act and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 on August 23 at the North Avenue police station on behalf of the Delhi unit of Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party. It is alleged that Bharti used casteist and derogatory words against MP Chandrashekhar on social media. In which he also mentioned Baba Saheb.