A Magistrate court in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Thursday denied bail to Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a case registered against him for alleged misuse of money collected via crowdfunding..Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Chauhan noted that a case for cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery under the Indian Penal Code was made out against Gokhale.The judge, therefore, denied him bail and sent him to judicial custody.On December 30, 2022 the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch had arrested Gokhale from Delhi..A first information report (FIR) was lodged on a complaint filed by a local resident who claimed to have donated ₹500 to Gokhale through online mode..This was Gokhale's third arrest in recent times by the Gujarat police.The police had earlier arrested Gokhale on December 6, 2022 for his tweet claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Morbi after the bridge collapse, had cost ₹30 crore.Based on Gokhale's December 1 tweet , an FIR was lodged, whereby he was booked under Sections 469 (forgery to harm reputation), 471 (using as genuine a forged document/electronic record), 501 (printing defamatory matter), and 505(b) (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code.He got bail from an Ahmedabad court after his remand ended on December 8. However, the TMC leader was again arrested the same day by the Morbi police for the same offence registered there. However, the next day on December 9, the Court granted him bail and he was released before he was arrested in the present case.
A Magistrate court in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Thursday denied bail to Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a case registered against him for alleged misuse of money collected via crowdfunding..Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Chauhan noted that a case for cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery under the Indian Penal Code was made out against Gokhale.The judge, therefore, denied him bail and sent him to judicial custody.On December 30, 2022 the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch had arrested Gokhale from Delhi..A first information report (FIR) was lodged on a complaint filed by a local resident who claimed to have donated ₹500 to Gokhale through online mode..This was Gokhale's third arrest in recent times by the Gujarat police.The police had earlier arrested Gokhale on December 6, 2022 for his tweet claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Morbi after the bridge collapse, had cost ₹30 crore.Based on Gokhale's December 1 tweet , an FIR was lodged, whereby he was booked under Sections 469 (forgery to harm reputation), 471 (using as genuine a forged document/electronic record), 501 (printing defamatory matter), and 505(b) (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code.He got bail from an Ahmedabad court after his remand ended on December 8. However, the TMC leader was again arrested the same day by the Morbi police for the same offence registered there. However, the next day on December 9, the Court granted him bail and he was released before he was arrested in the present case.
