Saket Gokhale

Saket Gokhale is an Indian RTI activist, politician and current spokesperson of Trinamool Congress (TMC). He joined TMC in 2021.[1] He had also worked as a correspondent at the Financial Times, and at the Hindustan Times.[1]

Saket Gokhale
NationalityIndian
Known forRTI Activism
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress

In December 2022, he was arrested over a tweet for posting alleged misinformation about 2022 Morbi bridge collapse.[2][3] After getting bail from a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad, he was re-arrested over the same tweet in a matter of few hours.[4] On 10 December, he was freed on bail.[5] In January 2023, Gokhale was arrested again by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) with allegations of money laundering.[6]

References
  1. "RTI activist Saket Gokhale joins Trinamool Congress". The Indian Express. 2021-08-12. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  2. "TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested over tweet on Morbi bridge". Hindustan Times. 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  3. "'Very bad... arrested because he tweeted against PM': Mamata backs Saket Gokhale". Hindustan Times. 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  4. "Saket Gokhale Arrest News: TMC's Saket Gokhale freed on bail, rearrested in Ahmedabad - Ahmedabad News". The Times of India. 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  5. https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/bail-for-saket-gokhale-after-second-arrest/cid/1903027
  6. "ED to court: TMC's Saket Gokhale used crowd fund on wining-dining, stock trading". The Indian Express. 26 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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