A Tripura court on Monday evening granted bail to Trinamul youth wing leader Sayani Ghosh, who had been arrested by police on Sunday evening on charges of attempt to murder and promoting enmity between groups.

The arrest prompted Trinamul MPs to raise the issue before Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Monday but not before staging a sit-in outside North Block over his alleged refusal to meet them over the arrest.

The MPs submitted a memorandum to Shah and claimed that he had heard them out. They claimed he had spoken to Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb on Sunday and will do so again.

Before leaving for Delhi on an official trip, Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee also spoke about the “atrocities” in the BJP-ruled Tripura and vowed to take up the issue during her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi because the “Tripura story must be heard nationally, from Mumbai to Delhi”.

Mamata said: “The atrocities in Tripura, what’s going on there… the skeleton of democracy tumbling out in the open in BJP-ruled states. Sayoni, an artiste, is being charged with attempted murder, from what I heard.”

The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear a contempt petition filed by Trinamul MP Sushmita Dev on how its November 11 order to the Tripura government to provide security to candidates of municipal polls was being violated, Trinamul general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said at a media conference in Agartala.

Sayani’s counsel Shankar Lodh told The Telegraph that she was produced in the additional chief judicial magistarte’s court, West Tripura, Agartala, around 2 pm and the hearing lasted for about 40 minutes.

“The court has granted bail on a bond of Rs 20,000 and one surety after considering the circumstances, records and case diary. The court came to the conclusion that there is no ingredient for Sections 307 and 153 (A), the non-bailable sections. The only condition imposed is that she will have to cooperate with the investigating agency, appear whenever she is summoned,” Lodh said.

Sayani was booked under Sections 153 (provocation which could lead to rioting)/153A( promoting enmity between different groups),

506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 307 (attempt to murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) by West Tripura police on Sunday afternoon.

Bengal sports, youth affairs and power minister Aroop Biswas (centre) with actors and singers in a silent rally in Calcutta on Monday to protest against alleged attacks on Trinamul Congress leaders in Tripura. PTI

The arrest was made on the eve of Abhishek Banerjee’s visit to Agartala to shore up Trinamul’s prospects in the November 25 urban local body polls, which are likely to see a three-way contest among the BJP, Left Front and debutant Trinamul.

Abhishek Banerjee, who addressed a press meet after his public meeting on Monday was cancelled because of escalating political tension, said that party candidates and leaders were attacked despite orders from the Supreme Court.

“The party of goons, BJP, is so shameless that they have started to make supreme mockery of the Supreme Court,” Banerjee said.

The police said both the BJP and Trinamul were not given permission to hold rallies in Agartala to avoid political tension but both could hold street-corner meetings.