Driver who rammed truck in Mamata Banerjee's convoy refused bail

Truck driver Gurjant Singh, for whose release political parties in Punjab had made a demand, was today refused bail by a court after his arrest in a case relating to the hitting a car in railway minister Mamata Banerjee's convoy on August 9.

Chief judicial magistrate Mayukh Mukhopadhyay remanded Singh to judicial custody till August 25.

The court also shifted Singh from CID custody, accepting public prosecutor Saiful Ali Khan's submission that neither the case diary nor the forensic report reached the court.

Singh's advocate Monojit Singh pleaded that his client had been arrested twice in the same case, which was illegal. Moreover, he did not escape after he was granted bail at the initial stage.

Singh was arrested after his truck hit a convoy of Banerjee on a national highway when she was returning to Kolkata after attending a rally at Lalgarh.

He was immediately released, but arrested again by the CID after Trinamool Congress MP Subhendu Adhikary lodged an FIR against him alleging conspiracy and attempt to murder.