Agartala, Sept 18 (TIWN): Bail appeal of persons of accused including ruling party CPI(M) divisional secretary Tapas Datta allegedly assaulting the judge and ransacking SDJM court of Sabroom was postponed till September 23. The bail appeal will held in the court room of Chief Justice of High Court of Tripura, Deepak Gupta.

On Thursday, the hearing for bail appeal came up for hearing in the court of justice Bipin Chandra Pal. The counsel  on behalf of accused applied for appeal. After hearing, Justice Das reserved the bail appeal till September 23 and directed police not to arrest Tapash as his father have died.

Meanwhile four CPI (M) workers were arrested in connection with the attack on a court in Sabroom during the nationwide strike called by trade unions on September 2.

The arrests came  after the High Court of Tripura took a strong view of the attack on the court of the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate Saurav Saha who was forced to take shelter in a toilet.

The arrested person accoridgn to police are Bijay Dey, Biswajit Ghosh, Abhik Basak and Abhijit Dey had been arrested over the past three days. Nearly 100 CPI(M) workers raided the court premises, ransacked the court room and assaulted a few staff members to enforce the strike.

Officer-in-charge of Sabroom police station Sanjit Sen fainted when police personnel scuffled with the picketers to prevent them from entering the court. Later, the police cleared them out of the area.

Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Gupta wrote to Chief Minister Manik Sarkar urging him to ensure protection of courts and staff.

Jusitce Gupta and Register General visited Sabroom  next day after the incident for  a review of the situation.