Former MLA and Khatiani Party leader Amit Mahato surrendered in the court of ADJ, Prabhat Sharma of Ranchi Civil Court on Tuesday. The court has sent Mahato to judicial custody.
Case number 208/2022 was registered against Mahto at Dhurva police station in Ranchi after the assembly gherao program in the year 2022. Several charges were leveled in the FIR, including obstructing Government work and blocking the road without permission. In this case, he had sought anticipatory bail from the Ranchi Civil Court. But the court refused to give him advance bail. After which he had also filed a petition for anticipatory bail in the High Court which was rejected by the High Court. After not getting anticipatory bail, Mahato surrendered in the court on Tuesday.
Before surrendering in the civil court Mahto held a press meet. During this, he warned the Government and said that if the local policy is not made, the existence of the Government will end. “The public will give a befitting reply to this Government. The Government sitting in power is afraid of him, so it is working to send him to jail,” he added.
Mahato further said that in case number 42 in Sonahatu police station in 2006, the then CO, Alok Kumar conspired to send me to jail. “On March 23, 2018, I was sentenced to two years. Because of which my legislation went away. The CO sent him to jail by presenting the wrong seizure list in the FIR. When appealed in the High Court, on May 2, 2023, the sentence of 2 years was reduced to 1 year. On the other hand, on August 3, 2022, the assembly was held regarding the local policy but the Government filed a case against me under the wrong mindset. Appealed for bail in both civil court and high court but the bail application was rejected. It is in this context that I have to surrender today,” he added.