Imphal: Senior journalist Dilwar Hussain Mozumder, chief reporter at The CrossCurrent and assistant general secretary of the Guwahati Press Club, was granted bail by the Kamrup chief judicial magistrate (CJM)’s court on Wednesday (March 26) in one of the two cases filed against him.
However, he remains in judicial custody due to delays in submitting his bail bond.
Mozumder was arrested on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday after covering a protest against alleged corruption in the Assam Cooperative Apex Bank, of which chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is director and BJP MLA Biswajit Phukan its chairman.
The protest, organised by the youth wing of the Assam Jatiya Parishad, took place outside the bank’s premises.
He was detained soon after he tried to pose questions about the corruption allegations to the bank’s managing director, Dambaru Saikia.
Sources told The Wire that the police had registered two cases against Mozumder at the Pan Bazar police station.
The first (Case No. 110/25) includes charges under Section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (Amendment 2015), and Sections 351(2) and 3(1)(r) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), linked to an alleged derogatory remark directed at a tribal individual.
The second case (Case No. 111/25) includes multiple sections of the BNS, all considered bailable offences. People are entitled to bail if held under bailable offences as long as they pay a bail bond.
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