Jharkhand activist Dayamani Barla gets bail after spending two months in jail

Ranchi: Jharkhand land rights activist Dayamani Barla has been granted bail today, after spending almost two months in jail.

Mrs Barla was sent to jail on October 18 for a case dating back to 2006, where she was accused of leading a protest that caused a roadblock. Two days later, the land rights activist got bail in the case, but was immediately re-arrested and put back in jail in two other old cases where she is accused of disrupting law and order during a protest.

Ms Barla has been at the forefront of a protest by residents of the Nagri village, 25 kilometres from Ranchi, where the government wants to acquire over 200 acres of farmland for setting up a law university and a campus of the Indian Institute of Management.