Bail granted
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 23 2022:
The Duty Magistrate Imphal West has granted bail to Nongmeikapam Nishanta (29) who was arrested for uploading a Facebook post depicting Chief Minister N Biren Singh as the the most corrupt Chief Minister of India on execution of required PR and surety bonds before the Court, today.
N Nishanta, s/o Basanta of Singjamei Wangma Kshetri Leikai was arrested yesterday.
He was produced before the Court with a prayer of three days police remand while the defence counsel filed a remand objection and sought bail.
The IO of the case submitted that one Manoharmayum Barish Sharma lodged a complaint to Singjamei police station stating that he saw a Facebook post depicting Chief Minister N Biren Singh as the most corrupt Chief Minister of India yesterday.
In the post, N Biren Singh is illustrated as a person owning black money, 26 flats, 8 bungalows apart from running hundreds of liquor shops etc, as per the complainant.
The IO further submitted that during the course of investigation it came to light that the post was shared by Nishanta Nongmeikapam Mangangcha who was later identified as Nongmeikapam Nishanta.
Nishanta surrendered before Singjamei police station.
The Court after hearing the IO and the defence counsel granted bail to Nishanta on execution of the PR bond.