Mamata convoy ‘attacker’ remanded to judicial custody

Gurjant Singh was arrested after his vehicle rammed into a car of the Rly Minister's convoy on August 9.

Truck driver Gurjant Singh,arrested after his vehicle rammed into a car of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy on August 9,was on Monday remanded to judicial custody till August 25 by a local court.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Mayukh Mukhopadhyay shifted Singh from CID custody accepting public prosecutor Saiful Ali Khan’s submission that neither the case diary nor the forensic report reached the court.

Singh’s advocate Monojit Singh pleaded that his client had been arrested twice on the same case which was illegal.

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Moreover,he did not escape after he was granted bail at the initial stage.

Singh was arrested after his truck hit a convoy of Banerjee on a national highway when she was returning to Kolkata after attending a rally at Lalgarh. He was immediately released,but rearrested by CID once Trinamool Congress MP Subhendu Adhikary lodged an FIR against him alleging conspiracy and attempt to murder.

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