TMC leader Saket Gokhale who was arrested over alleged fake tweets on PM Modi, filed a bail application at a sessions court in Gujarat.
Ahmedabad,UPDATED: Jan 10, 2023 16:57 IST
Trinamool Congress leader Saket Gokhale (File photo)
By Saurabh Vaktania: Trinamool Congress leader Saket Gokhale, who was arrested by the Gujarat Police in December, filed a bail application at a Gujarat sessions court on Tuesday. He was arrested over a tweet endorsing alleged fake news about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Morbi after the bridge collapse incident.
The court has asked Gujarat Police to file a reply to Gokhale’s bail application and the hearing will take place after that.
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‘FAKE’ TWEET
Gokhale tweeted a news clipping which appeared to have been published in a leading Gujarati newspaper. The news clipping claimed a query under the Right to Information (RTI) revealed the Gujarat government had spent Rs 30 crore on PM Modi’s visit to Morbi after a bridge collapsed there in October.
But on December 1, the Press Information Bureau said that the claim that PM Modi’s visit to Morbi for a few hours cost Rs 30 crore was fake.
The police contacted the Gujarati newspaper management, who informed the police that the news was never published.
The Gujarat Police alleged that Gokhale used money sourced from crowd funding for personal use and want to investigate further into the matter.
The TMC leader’s bail application was earlier rejected by the Ahmedabad metro court, which observed that bail cannot be granted as the investigation is ongoing.
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