Wen Johnson, the 24-year-old Australian arrested for invading the pitch throughout Sunday’s ICC World Cup 2023 in Ahmedabad, was remanded in one-day police custody by a Gandhinagar courtroom.
Donning a pro-Palestine T-shirt, masks and rainbow flag, Johnson bumped into the pitch on the Narendra Modi Stadium and approached star India batter Virat Kohli.
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The person made it to the sector with out being seen by the guards | AFP
The incident that occurred simply earlier than the drinks break briefly interrupted the India – Australia closing. Nevertheless, the teenager was rapidly apprehended and faraway from the sector by safety personnel.
The Australian was then arrested by Chandkheda police on prices of prison trespass (part 447) and inflicting damage to discourage public servants from doing their obligation (part 332), reported information company PTI.
The Crime Department was later tasked to take care of the pitch invader by town police commissioner, the information company added. It was the Crime Department sleuths who offered Wen Johnson in a courtroom in Gandhinagar to hunt his remand for additional probe.
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The pitch invader being faraway from the bottom | AFP
In line with the police, the youth jumped the ‘Level quantity R-88’ of the stadium, manned by 15 policemen, to make a rush in the direction of Virat Kohli.
In line with Wen Johnson’s lawyer, his police custody will come to an finish by 5:00 PM on Tuesday. Nevertheless, the Crime Department had sought 10-day custody on numerous grounds.
What the FIR says concerning the ‘Virat fan’ from Australia
As per the FIR, after getting into the World Cup closing venue as a spectator, Wen Johnson jumped the railing and ran in the direction of the pitch in a determined try and hug Virat Kohli. He pushed apart on-duty policemen on his means, the report mentioned.
Johnson wore a face masks bearing the design of the Palestine flag and a T-shirt with ‘Cease bombing Palestine’ and ‘Save Palestine’ slogans written on the back and front sides.
The ICC does not enable any political sloganeering throughout occasions organised by the worldwide governing physique of cricket and no act is allowed in India.
A preliminary probe has revealed Johnson is a routine offender and was booked in his nation for invading sports activities fields up to now, police inspector Viraj Jadeja mentioned on Sunday.
In some movies and photographs he has shared on his Instagram deal with ‘pyjamamann’, Johnson may be seen invading fields throughout soccer video games and being taken away by safety personnel.
In line with a Crime Department launch issued on Monday, Johnson had invaded the sector through the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup soccer match this yr sporting a ‘Free Ukraine’ T-shirt.
Equally, he went into the sector throughout a ‘State of Origin III’ rugby match in Australia’s Brisbane in 2020.
“Johnson is within the behavior of associating himself with any present worldwide challenge and invading fields simply to get publicity to develop into well-known as a TikToker,” the discharge mentioned.
“FREE PALESTINE”, the T-shirt learn within the again | AFP
Who’s Wen Johnson?
“A probe has revealed his father is of Chinese language origin whereas his mom is from The Philippines. He lives in Sydney and works with a photo voltaic panel agency,” mentioned the discharge.
It was revealed that Johnson had placed on the blue jersey of the Indian workforce over the T-shirt that had the pro-Palestine slogans. He then eliminated the jersey earlier than operating in the direction of Kohli.
