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Nandigram By-election: Will Milan Pradhan Remain Jailed? Congress Candidate's Hope Now High Court!
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News18•23-09-2026, 17:16
Nandigram By-election: Will Milan Pradhan Remain Jailed? Congress Candidate's Hope Now High Court!
- •Kanthi Sub-divisional Court ordered Congress candidate Milan Pradhan to remain in judicial custody until October 7 for the Nandigram by-election.
- •Milan Pradhan faces charges including murder in old cases from the 2007 Nandigram movement.
- •The arrested Congress candidate, Milan Pradhan, has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking bail.
- •Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the High Court has granted permission to file the case.
- •The state Congress leadership is angered by the arrest, claiming that cases closed during the Left regime have been reopened.
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Milan Pradhan has been remanded to judicial custody until October 7 following a ruling by the Kanthi Sub-divisional Court in connection with multiple old cases dating back to 2007.
The Nandigram Assembly by-election is scheduled to be held on October 6.
Milan Pradhan approached the Calcutta High Court, where Justice Tirthankar Ghosh granted permission to file his bail case.
