TMC national spokesperson Saket Gokhale has been arrested on Monday by Gujarat police, informed TMC MP Derek O'Brien. The MP posted a Twitter thread to tell about the arrest accusing the BJP of taking a 'political vendetta by the BJP.
Brien said that at 2 in the morning on Tuesday, Gokhale called his mother and told her that they are taking him to Ahmedabad and he would reach Ahmedabad by noon today.
He added that the police let him make that one two-minute phone call and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings.
Blaming BJP for the arrest, the TMC MP said, "The cooked up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse. All this cannot silence @AITCofficial and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level Gokhale has been arrested for his tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse incident."
Gokhale has been arrested for his tweet on the Morbi Bridge collapse incident that killed 134 people.
The forensic science laboratory (FSL) report on the Morbi bridge collapse stated that the cable of the bridge was old and rusting away. The Investigating Officer (IO) also said that only the flooring of the bridge was changed and not the cables.