Overview
- A Sessions Court granted bail on Wednesday to six men accused of vandalising Christmas decorations at Raipur’s Magneto Mall, and they were released the next day.
- Supporters greeted the accused with garlands, slogans and a celebratory procession, carrying them on their shoulders outside jail.
- An FIR at Telibandha police station names 30–40 unknown persons under trespass, property damage, causing hurt, rioting and unlawful assembly sections, with six arrests on December 27 and a minor apprehended.
- A magistrate had denied bail on December 29, and Bajrang Dal state coordinator Rishi Mishra defended the procession and slogans while linking the case to alleged conversions and claiming a conspiracy.
- Roughly 300 Bajrang Dal workers staged a nine-hour sit-in outside the Telibandha police station after the arrests, blocking traffic, and police have not registered a case over that protest.