SHILLONG: Jailed chairman of the militant outfit Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), Champion Sangma, was on Tuesday granted bail by a local court here in one case.
Chief Judicial Magistrate M Joshi granted bail to Sangma in the case pertaining to a brawl in the high security ward of the Shillong District Jail on June 26 last year with jailer B R Marak naming him as one of the accused in the case.
Sources said that the lawyer of Champion had filed a bail application in the CJM Court on Monday.
It may be mentioned that the violent clash, which broke out among the UTPs in Shillong District Jail last year, had left eight persons injured including Champion.
The GNLA chief along with four other inmates had sustained severe injuries in the brawl and Champion sustained head injuries after inmates hit him with sticks.
The militant leader is currently serving a jail term of three years after being booked under the Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act for deserting the state police and joining the GNLA.
Sangma was arrested on July 30, 2012, from a place along the Indo-Bangladesh border, hours after Bangladesh authorities pushed him into India after completing a jail term in that country
