Northeast Desk, 30th April: Kajal Das, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in North Tripura district, has been granted bail today after being arrested on April 29 in connection with an alleged assault on a presiding officer during the phase 2 polls for the Tripura East constituency.
The incident, which unfolded on April 26 at a polling station in the Bagbasa assembly constituency, was captured in a widely circulated video on various social media platforms.
The footage captured the moment when Kajal Das purportedly struck the polling official, amidst the presence of multiple unidentified individuals who were observed assaulting the officer at Polling Station Number 22. Following the incident, a formal complaint against Kajal Das was lodged by the Assistant Returning Officer of Dharmanagar, as confirmed by a senior police official.
Jayanta Debnath, the officer in charge of Kadamtala Police Station where the case was registered, affirmed that a thorough investigation ensued promptly after the incident. The investigation leveraged input from sector officers, micro observers, and careful analysis of the viral video footage to ascertain the facts surrounding the alleged assault.
Kajal Das’s release on bail comes amid ongoing legal proceedings, with further developments expected as the investigation progresses.
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