A Noida court has rejected the bail application of Noida double murder case accused Rajesh Talwar on Tuesday & remanded him to police custody for 3 days. Earlier, the proceedings of the court was postponed for an hour after some lawyers agitating on the Gujjar issue entered the courtroom & shouted slogans.

Rajesh Talwar, now in judicial remand, was brought to the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate A K Singh from Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad on Tuesday morning for the hearing of his bail plea & an application filed by police for seeking his custody. The proceedings, that began around 1:30 p.m. (IST), had lasted barely 15 minutes, during which the Public Prosecutor P N Shrivastava sought seven days’ police custody of the accused, when some lawyers who have been agitating for reservation benefits for Gujjars entered the courtroom & started shouting slogans. The proceedings were postponed for an hour following the disruption.

The bail plea was earlier scheduled to be taken on Monday, but it had to be postponed till Tuesday due to a strike called by the lawyers in support of the Gujjars’ agitation. Lawyers representing Talwar, a dentist, have filed the application saying that he be released on bail since he was innocent & also suffering from asthma.