Senior BJP leader and incumbent MlA from Jamshedpur-East Assembly segment Raghuvar Das on Monday surrendered in a local court here on Monday and was granted bail in connection with a criminal case.
Das was charged in a case related to the alleged beating up of security guards of Tata Steel owned material handling equipment manufacturing company TRF ltd, official sources said.
A total of 24 named accused including Das, also the former State president of State BJP, in the case that was lodged under section 147, 148, 149, 188 in Telco police station on April 23. It alleged that the accused persons assembled illegally near the company premises and beat up its guards who were on duty.
Defense counsel Devendra Singh claimed in the court that his client was wrongly implicated in the case.