Patna: A special Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe court in Patna on Friday granted regular bail to a Rajasthan-based journalist, Durgesh Singh, alias Durg Singh Purohit, in a complaint case filed in the chief judicial magistrate's court against him on May 7 this year.

The court, headed by Manoj Kumar Sinha, allowed the bail filed on behalf of Durg Singh after hearing the legal counsel's argument on Friday. Sinha reserved his decision after listening to the petitioner's counsel. Sinha later granted bail after furnishing two sureties of Rs 5,000 each.

Durg was arrested from Rajasthan's Barmer and brought to Patna against a non-bailable warrant. He was produced in court on August 21, which remanded him in judicial custody in Beur Central Jail.

A complaint was filed that one Rakesh Paswan, a resident of Tetua Par Dumrawan under the jurisdiction of Asthawan police station in Nalanda district, in which he had alleged that he was dragged from his rented house at Digha Ghat in Patna and was assaulted and hurled with casteist abuses.

The incident was the fallout of non-payment of his wages, which he had earned for working in a mining factory in Rajasthan. But the case took a new turn when the complainant, Rakesh, told reporters in Patna that he did not know anything about the accused and also feigned ignorance about the complainant's identity.

Durg's father, Guman Singh, who reached Patna after his son's arrest claimed that his son had never visited Patna. "My son has been implicated in a fabricated case under political pressure," said Guman. Durg had also stated in his bail petition that he was framed in a false case at the behest of politicians aggrieved with him.

Durg has been booked under Section 406 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 3 (1) (h) (r) (s) of the SC/SC Act.