Patna (Staff Correspondent): Jan Suraj Party Chief Prashant Kishor (PK) Prashant Kishor was released from the Beur jail on Monday evening after the SDM court granted him bail without any condition. The court order was changed immediately after he was sent to Beur Jail. All the bail conditions that were imposed earlier were removed. He will talk to the media at 8 p.m. at Sheikhpura House.
Earlier, he was sent to 14 days judicial custody after his arrest during a fast-unto-death protest at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan in Bihar. He was produced in a SDM court where he refused to sign a bail bond. The Jan Suraj leader is demanding the cancellation of a Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) prelims examination following allegations of a question paper leak in Bapu Sabhagar in Patna on December 13, 2024.
Talking to media persons, Prashant Kishor said that he won’t accept conditional bail and will continue his fast. Before going to jail, Prashant Kishor said, “There is a campaign to overthrow the Nitish Kumar government and BJP who practice lathi-tantra. Are you ready?”
He said that police took him from Gandhi Maidan to AIIMS. From 5 am to 11 am the police kept him in the ambulance and took him to different places and no one told him where they were taking him. After 5 hours the police took him to the Fatuha community centre.
PK further added that police wanted to get a certificate from the doctors after examining him, but he denied his permission for medical checkup. He was not doing anything illegal.The police tried to get the doctors there to give them a certificate but the doctors refused to give an illegal certificate. After that he was brought to the court, he got bail from the court but there were a provision that he will not do this again. So, he rejected the bail, and accepted going to jail.
Earlier, Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh informed that along with Prashant Kishor, 43 people were detained. So far, 30 people were verified by the administration, none of them were students. Some others were claiming to be students. A total of 15 vehicles chasing the accused, including a vanity van found abandoned and two tractors, were seized by the police.
