Days after coming out on bail, Saket Gokhale goes on a rant in direction of the BJP

Days after coming out of jail on bail throughout the crowdfunding case, Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale turned to Twitter right now (May 12) to rant and rave that the state’s BJP authorities had engaged in a witch hunt in direction of him. After spending months in jail, the TMC spokesperson was granted bail by a selected court docket docket on May 6, 2023.

Jailed for misappropriation of funds to the tune of Rs 1.07 crore, the TMC chief claimed in his thread of tweets posted right now that the Gujarat Police and the ED arrested him, on the trail of the BJP, in a case of Rs 500.

Statement:

I’m once more after spending 4.5 months in Ahmedabad Central Jail.

Why?

Because the Gujarat Police & the ED unleashed on me by the BJP arrested me in a case of Rs. 500. filed by a Gujarat Govt official claiming to be a donor.

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— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) May 12, 2023

“Of the 1700 people that crowdfunded me between 2019-20, a complaint of Rs. 500 by ONE donor (incidentally a Gujarat Govt official) was used to charge me with “money laundering,” he claimed together with that he is assured of his innocence and has immense faith throughout the judiciary.

It may be recalled that the TMC spokesperson was arrested by the ED beneath jail sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). While dismissing his bail plea in January this yr the court docket docket seen that prima facie evidently Gokhale had utilised the funds raised in crowdfunding for his non-public payments.

He continued his tirade in direction of the BJP by declaring Gujarat to be “BJP’s laboratory for persecution” and accusing Gujarat police of working in direction of him on the social gathering’s orders.

“I’m proud that despite several attempts by the BJP to get me to jump into their “washing machine”, I saved my integrity & chosen to endure jail in its place,” Gokhale tweeted.

The TMC chief further claimed that he was attacked in jail on 4 occasions. Insinuating that the assaults have been carried out on him on the instruction of the BJP, Gokhale acknowledged, “the main purpose of BJP in jailing me was to try and silence me. I feel sorry for them if they assumed that I’m as weak as their coterie of “washing machine”-returned leaders.”

In his subsequent tweet, he heaped praises at Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee and completely different TMC leaders for standing by him throughout the hour of need. He thanked his ‘guardian angel’ Derek O’Brien for supporting him and his family all by.

“Backing down from a righteous battle is not in our DNA,” he claimed, together with that he is “back and ready to fight the good fight.”

Gujarat HC dismisses Gokhale’s bail plea throughout the crowdfunding case

Notably, in January this yr, the Gujarat High Court dismissed the bail utility filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale observing that prima facie evidently Gokhale had utilised the funds raised through crowdfunding for his non-public payments.

Noting that the case is of the character of fraud and dishonest and that the investigation stays to be taking place and that the necessary proof is to be recovered, the court docket docket denied bail to the TMC chief.

On December 29, Gokhale was arrested in Delhi by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch. Gokhale is accused of misappropriating Rs 1.07 crore collected from most of the people through crowd-funding. Saket Gokhale was charged beneath sections 420 (dishonest), 406 (jail breach of perception), and 467 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code.

ED arrests TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale and his repeated arrests

TMC chief Saket Gokhale was arrested by the Gujarat Police in December closing yr for siphoning off money throughout the title of activism. The police had found accounts linked to Gokhale the place he was receiving money, which he claimed was getting used for approved expenses for activism-related circumstances nonetheless have been in its place getting used for personal payments. Before that, he was arrested by Gujarat police for spreading faux details about PM Modi.

On January 25, the Enforcement Directorate arrested Gokhale beneath sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in Ahmedabad.

While he was denied bail earlier, a court docket docket in Ahmedabad granted him widespread bail on Saturday, guaranteeing his launch from Ahmedabad jail the place he was lodged since his arrest. On Tuesday, TMC chief Derek O’Brien posted {{a photograph}} of Gokhale on Twitter after his launch, saying that he is “unbroken and ready to fight the good fight.”