| Saket Gokhale | |
| Birth Date: | January 31, 1987 (age 36) |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Known For: | RTI Activism |
| Party: | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Office: | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha |
| Termstart: | 18 July 2023 |
| Predecessor: | Luizinho Faleiro |
| Constituency: | West Bengal |
| Residence: | New Delhi, India |
Saket Gokhale is an Indian Member of Parliament (MP), RTI activist and politician, and the National Spokesperson of Trinamool Congress.[1] He joined TMC in 2021.[2] He had also worked as a foreign correspondent at the Financial Times and at National Public Radio (NPR). Now he is the member of India's Upper House of Parliament i.e. Rajya Sabha representing the State of West Bengal.
In December 2022, he was arrested over a tweet for posting alleged misinformation about 2022 Morbi bridge collapse.[3] [4] After getting bail from a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad, he was re-arrested over the same tweet in a matter of few hours.[5] On 10 December, he was freed on bail.[6]
In January 2023, Gokhale was arrested again by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over charges of money laundering, as he had allegedly diverted crowdfunded money for personal expenses and investments.[7] The Supreme Court granted him bail in April 2023.[8]
On June 30, 2024, The Delhi High Court directed Saket Gokhale to apologize and pay Rs 50 lakh damages to former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, the wife of Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri, for his defamatory tweets against her over the purchase over the purchase of a property in Switzerland. Hearing the defamation lawsuit filed by the former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani also restrained the TMC Member of Parliament from publishing any more content on any social media or electronic platform concerning his imputation. [9]