Journalism of Courage
The bail petition of the driver who has been booked for alleged conspiracy to kill Mamata Banerjee was rejected by a court in Tamluk on Monday.
Gurjant Singhs truck had hit a vehicle in Mamatas convoy on August 9 at Kolaghat,while she was rejecting from her Lalgarh rally. Following a complaint by Suvendu Adhikari,the Trinamool MP from Tamluk who was also in the convoy,the police had lodged a case of attempt to murder case against Singh.
Singh was remanded in judicial custody and would be produced in court again on August 25.
His counsel Manojit Singh pleaded that Singh was innocent and did not intentionally hit the security vehicle in the convoy,and that he was a poor truck driver from a Punjab village.
The counsel also pleaded that law does not allow the police to start two cases on a single incident. Initially,the Kolaghat police had registered a case of accident in the case.
However,later,an attempt to murder case was lodged after Adhikaris complaint.
Public prosecutor Safiul Ali Khan argued that it was a case of attempt to murder and Mamata and Utpal Das Mahapatra,the driver of her vehicle,had been injured in
the incident.
