As many as 84 Indian Secular Front (ISF) members, including its MLA Nawsad Siddique were granted bail on Thursday, a day after their arrest for staging a protest in Kolkata.
Today, they were produced in a Bankshal court where a judge granted bail to each of them.
Initially, everyone including Nawsad Siddique was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 500, but later, the bond was waived.
On Wednesday, ISF workers led by Nawsad Siddique were arrested by the police for holding a demonstration at Kolkata’s Metro Channel in Esplanade area over several issues.
The ISF activists were protesting against the Election Commission of India’s (ECI’s) proposed Special Intensive Revision (SIR), atrocities on Bengali migrant workers outside West Bengal, the Waqf Amendment Act and the OBC certificate issue.
However, as the protesters did not have permission for the demonstration, police arrested about 84 ISF members.
The ISF MLA alleged that he was physically assaulted by the policemen and punched in the chest.
Firdous Shamim, the lawyer who appeared for the arrested ISF activists, said, “There are many among the arrested people who are government employees. There are teachers and lawyers. There are two engineers of the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited. The police used force to disperse them.”
Meanwhile, earlier in the day, ISF activists held protests in parts of West Bengal, demanding the release of the party’s lone MLA Siddique and several others.