Swatantra Bhardwaj Controversy: From Jantar Mantar Clash to Three-Week Interim Bail
A June confrontation involving a CJP protester’s father has grown into a wider legal controversy involving an alleged assault, SC/ST Act provisions, a separate POCSO case and threats against a minor activist New Delhi, September 15, 2026: The controversy surrounding social-media figure Swatantra Bhardwaj has developed from a June confrontation at Delhi's Jantar Mantar into a wider legal dispute involving allegations of assault, caste-based abuse, online threats and competing claims over what happened during the confrontation. The latest development came on September 15 , when a Delhi court granted Bhardwaj three weeks' interim bail in the case concerning the alleged assault of Sanjay Azad , father of teenage CJP activist Nishu Aazad . The temporary relief does not amount to an acquittal and does not bring the criminal proceedings to an end. The case has attracted attention because of Bhardwaj's social-media profile, his own statements about the confrontation, the sub...