Assam journalist released from Guwahati jail day after getting bail

Journalist Dilwar Hussain Mozumder was on Saturday released from the Guwahati Central Jail, a day after he got bail in the second case against him, The Hindu reported.

On Friday, a city court granted bail to Mozumder in the second case against him, which pertains to allegations of trespassing into a bank. However, he was not released on Friday as the order was passed in the evening, and bail formalities were yet to be completed, The Indian Express reported.

On Wednesday, Mozumder was granted bail in a separate case. However, he was arrested again the next day in the second case against him based on a complaint by the managing director of the Assam Co-operative Apex Bank.

Mozumder, a journalist with digital news outlet The CrossCurrent, had on Tuesday sought to ask questions to Dombaru Saikia, the managing director of the Assam Co-operative Apex Bank, regarding alleged irregularities.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is a director of the Assam Cooperative Apex Bank and Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Biswajit Phukan is its chairman.

Mozumder was detained by the police on Tuesday after a protest by Jatiya Yuva Shakti, the youth wing of the Assam Jatiya Parishad, against alleged financial irregularities in the bank.

He was subsequently arrested later in the day in the first case filed by a security guard at the bank, on charges of criminal intimidation...

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