Magor officials granted bail

JORHAT, July 29: The four Williamson Magor Group officials, who were arrested on July 18 for their alleged links with the banned ULFA, were yesterday granted bail against a surety bond of Rs 10,000 each in the court of the district and sessions judge here. The quartet, Mohbandha Tea Estate Manager Aswini Sarma, Gajen Gogoi, driver Gajen Bhuyan and mechanic Haren Saikia, were earlier denied bail in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court and remanded to judicial custody by the Sub-Divisional Judicial magistrate here. The garden officials are alleged to have helped Ratul Dutta alias Sangram Koch, secretary of the outfit's Kakadonga Anchalik Parishad, both financially and medically. Ratul was suffering from malaria and had come to the tea garden on July 13 and availed treatment. He subsequently died on July 15.