Today, Kajal Das, the president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in North Tripura district, has been granted bail after his arrest on April 29 in connection with an alleged assault on a presiding officer during the phase 2 polls for the Tripura East constituency.
The incident occurred on April 26 at a polling station in the Bagbasa assembly constituency and was captured in a widely circulated video on various social media platforms.
In the video, Das is seen purportedly striking the polling official amidst the presence of multiple unidentified individuals who were observed assaulting the officer at Polling Station Number 22. Following the incident, a formal complaint against Das was lodged by the Assistant Returning Officer of Dharmanagar, as confirmed by a senior police official.
Jayanta Debnath, the officer in charge of Kadamtala Police Station where the case was registered, affirmed that a thorough investigation ensued promptly after the incident. The investigation leveraged input from sector officers, micro observers, and careful analysis of the viral video footage to ascertain the facts surrounding the alleged assault.
Das’s release on bail comes amid ongoing legal proceedings, with further developments expected as the investigation progresses.