Trinamool Congress’s nationwide spokesperson Saket Gokhale, identified to be a authorities critic, was arrested on Monday by the Gujarat Police in Rajasthan, his get together colleague and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien mentioned on Twitter. In a collection of posts, the Rajya Sabha member additional wrote that the arrest was linked to a case on a tweet by Gokhale on Morbi bridge collapse on October 31, which had claimed over 140 lives.
The belongings of the TMC’s nationwide spokesperson, together with his cell phone, have additionally been confiscated, it has additional been claimed. “Saket took a 9pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Monday. When he landed, the Gujarat Police was on the airport in Rajasthan ready for him and picked him up,” the Rajya Sabha MP wrote in one of many posts. “At 2 within the morning on Tuesday, he known as his Ma and advised her that they’re taking him to Ahmedabad and he would attain Ahmedabad by midday at present. The police let him make that one two-minute cellphone name after which confiscated his cellphone and all his belongings,” Derek O’Brien additional added.
Derek additionally attacked the BJP over the arrest. “The cooked up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse. All this can’t silence @AITCofficial and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to a different stage,” he wrote, attacking the ruling get together within the state and on the Centre.
The collapse of the suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi district – quickly after it was opened to public following renovation – was broadly criticised by the opposition. The matter was additionally introduced up within the Supreme Courtroom and the excessive courtroom.
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