INDIA

RTI Activist, TMC’s spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat Police

By News Desk

December 06, 2022

Spokesperson of Trinamool Congress (TMC) and RTI activist Saket Gokhale has been arrested by the Gujarat Police on Monday night.

Darek O’Brien senior leader of the TMC shared the details of the arrest on his Twitter handle and said that Saket was arrested by the Gujarat Police as soon as he landed on Jaipur airport.

“Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat Police. Saket took a 9pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Mon. When he landed, Gujarat Police was at the airport in Rajasthan waiting for him and picked him up,” Darek O’Brien said.

At 2 in the morning on Tue, he called his Ma and told her that they are taking him to Ahmedabad and he would reach Ahmedabad by noon today. The police let him make that one two-minute phone call and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings, he wrote.

the TMC leader said, “The cooked-up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse.”

All this cannot silence the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level, he wrote.