{"id":181159,"date":"2022-01-07T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181159"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:42:14","slug":"tripura-seven-cpi-m-leaders-granted-bail-in-covid-norm-breach-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/tripura-seven-cpi-m-leaders-granted-bail-in-covid-norm-breach-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripura: Seven CPI (M) leaders granted bail in COVID norm breach case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agartala, Jan 6 (PTI) A court in West Tripura district on Thursday granted bail to seven CPI(M) leaders, including Deputy Leader of Opposition in the assembly Badal Chowdhury, in a case of breach of COVID-19 norms during a political rally in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former transport minister Manik Dey and ex-MP Shankar Prasad Dutta are among the seven CPI(M) leaders who were granted bail by Judicial Magistrate (first class) Dorothy Jamatia, Assistant Public Prosecutor Bidyut Sutradhar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The accused leaders held a protest rally at Paradise Chowmuhani in Agartala, violating COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic. They declined to cooperate with the police when they were asked to vacate the spot,&#8221; Sutradhar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court summoned the accused CPI(M) leaders and granted bail to them when they appeared before it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We held a demonstration on September 25, 2020, demanding basic amenities for people. We didn&#8217;t violate any law. The government failed to provide the basic needs of residents and they are put behind bars if they voice their protest. This is anarchy,&#8221; Dey said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Claiming that the cases filed against them are &#8220;false&#8221;, he said the BJP-led government is trying to harass the opposition party leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agartala, Jan 6 (PTI) A court in West Tripura district on Thursday granted bail to seven CPI(M) leaders, including Deputy Leader of Opposition in the assembly Badal Chowdhury, in a case of breach of COVID-19 norms during a political rally in September 2020. Former transport minister Manik Dey and ex-MP Shankar Prasad Dutta are among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}