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Supreme Court Adjourns Bail Plea Of TMC Spokesperson Saket Gokhale To April
Awstika Das
27 March 2023 1:36 PM GMT
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to April, the bail hearing of Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a case related to allegation of misappropriation of funds raised through a crowdfunding account. A division bench of Justices BR Gavai and Vikram Nath was informed by Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta that the State would be filing their response to Gokhale’s petition in...
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to April, the bail hearing of Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a case related to allegation of misappropriation of funds raised through a crowdfunding account. A division bench of Justices BR Gavai and Vikram Nath was informed by Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta that the State would be filing their response to Gokhale’s petition in the coming days. At the behest of the State, Justice Gavai pronounced, “List after two weeks.”
The 34-year-old activist-turned-politician was arrested by Ahmedabad police’s cybercrime branch from Delhi on December 30 last year. In January, Justice Samir Dave of the Gujarat High Court declined Gokhale’s request for bail. While denying him bail, the judge further observed that there was a prima facie case that the amounts collected in the name of welfare had been used by the accused for his personal benefit.
Gokhale claimed that he had been arrested on the basis of a spurious complaint for his now-deleted tweet alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Gujarat after the Morbi bridge collapse had set back the public exchequer by Rs 30 crore.
Earlier in March, the top court issued notice in Gokhale’s challenge against the denial of bail by the single-judge bench of the Gujarat High Court.
Case Title
Saket Suhas Gokhale v. State of Gujarat | Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No. 2779 of 2023
