Union ministers Tariq, Deepa Munshi surrender in court

Union ministers Tariq Anwar and Deepa Das Munshi were among 23 persons who surrendered in a district court here today for an agitation in 2011 and were released on providing surety.
Besides, the two union ministers of state, Kisanganj Congress Lok Sabha member Maulana Asrarul Haque also surrendered before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Manoj Kumar Sinha.
The court freed them on a surety of Rs 5000 each.
They were booked for stopping trains and a road blockade on NH31 during an agitation for early allocation of land for setting up of an AMU campus.
More than half-a-dozen legislators from West Bengal were among them.

The district administration had registered FIR under bailable sections. All had refused to apply for bail.
Among others who surrendered and were released included Congress MLA Tauseef Alam and rebel RJD MLA Akhtar-ul Iman.