A court in Patna on Monday granted unconditional bail to Jan Suraaj Party chief Prashant Kishor hours after he was sent to jail for refusing to pay bail bond.
“There is no strength bigger than people's strength. This is the effect of the protest we did for people," he said immediately after his release.
Earlier in the day, Kishor, who was arrested in the middle of his fast-unto-death over alleged irregularities in the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC), was taken to Beur jail after he refused to sign the conditions of his bail bond.
Walking out of the jail in the evening, Kishor addressed the protesting BPSC aspirants and said the court had earlier given him conditional bail, but he rejected it and was ready to go to jail.
“Police took me to Beur jail but they had no documents to keep me there and by then court's final order came. Court took cognisance of our demand and granted unconditional bail," he said.
Kishor’s lawyer Kumar Amit alleged that the JSP leader was taken to several places in Patna on ‘someone’s instruction’.
as per the guidelines of Supreme Court and amendment in CrPC, he should have got bail from the Police station itself, but don't know on whose instruction, he was taken to several places in Patna for 6-8 hours. Then he was taken to court and in the first round, court may be didn't understand the whole issue and granted him conditional bail but he didn't accept that bail, so I went to court and after sometime court understood the matter and gave unconditional bail," Amit was quoted as saying by ANI.
Kishor was picked up from the Gandhi Maidan early in the morning, in pursuance of an FIR lodged against him last week for holding 'Aamaran anshan' at Gandhi Maidan, in violation of a Patna High Court order that forbids any such demonstration at a place other than Gardani Bagh locality in the city.