Prashant Kishor's team members granted bail in Tripura
July 29, 2021 19:08
The 23 members of poll strategist Prashant Kishor's I-PAC team, the alleged detention of which in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Tripura led the Trinamool Congress to attack the saffron party, surrendered before a local court on Thursday, which granted them bail.
The Indian Political Action Committee (I-team has been camping in Agartala to assess the political situation and potential support base for the TMC.
The police allegedly detained them in a hotel citing Covid norms on Sunday night.
Senior TMC leader and MP Derek O'Brien, who arrived in the state, alleged that the central leadership of the BJP is behind the incident.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S B Das granted bail to the I-PAC team members, who were summoned to appear before the police on August 1 following registration of an FIR against them on Tuesday.
The police earlier said that the I-PAC team members will have to remain inside the hotel until their test report for COVID-19 is available. The reports came negative on Tuesday night.
Their counsel Pijush Kanti Biswas said that a case against the state government will be filed for harassing them.
"The I-PAC team members arrived in the state with Covid negative reports. But they were put under detention before the FIR was registered which amounts to harassment," Biswas said.
Additional Public Prosecutor Bidyut Sutradhar said a complaint was filed by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Sadar, against the team, which was registered at East Agartala police station under Section 188 of IPC (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and under the National Disaster Management Act.
"The investigating officer served them notice to meet him on August one. There was no apprehension of arrest. But still, they surrendered before the court, prayed for bail and the court granted them bail," Sutradhar told reporters.
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