Day after securing bail, Yashwant Sinha walks out of Hazaribagh jail

Hazaribagh (Jharkhand): BJP leader Yashwant Sinha was today released from the Hazaribagh jail, a day after he was granted bail by a local court. Interestingly, while Sinha refused to apply for bail, a meeting with BJP veteran LK Advani on Tuesday made him change his mind. Sinha, who spent a fortnight in jail, was granted bail on Wednesday by a local court. This, following his refusal to seek immediate bail after his arrest during a power crisis stir. [caption id=“attachment_1300757” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  BJP leader Yashwant Sinha. Image courtesy: PIB[/caption] Chief Judicial Magistrate RB Pal granted the bail after Sinha’s counsel Anil Kumar Sinha and Raj Kumar Raju moved the bail petition. Sinha was in judicial remand from 3 June in connection with an alleged assault of a government official in Hazaribagh the previous day. After meeting Sinha in jail, Advani had told reporters on Tuesday that Sinha should leave jail after securing bail and lead the ongoing agitation by BJP against the power crisis in Jharkhand. Sinha was also the ‘right person’ to be chief minister after the Assembly elections later this year, he had said. Sinha and several of his supporters were arrested on 2 June after JSEB General Manager (Hazaribagh Branch) Dhanesh Jha filed an FIR accusing them of tying him up during their demonstration near his office. The following day the court remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days after all the accused refused to seek bail. The court extended their remand till 28 June after they stayed away from moving bail again on 16 June. On 12 June, BJP leaders Shahnawaz Hussain and Rajiv Pratap Rudy as emissaries of BJP president Rajnath Singh had urged Sinha to obtain bail and participate in the party’s statewide agitation. Besides Sinha, all his supporters were also granted bail by the court on Wednesday. With PTI inputs