Agartala, Sept. 3 -- A late-night altercation at the newly built MLA hostel has triggered a political row in Tripura, with Tipra Motha legislator Philip Kumar Reang filing an FIR against Pratik Dev Varma, son of Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma, and three others.

Reang initially claimed that unidentified miscreants had attacked and abused him. He later revised his statement to specifically name Dev Varma as one of the accused.

Police sources confirmed that officers arrested Dev Varma but later granted him bail, as the charges fall under non-bailable sections.

The incident led several Tipra Motha MLAs, headed by Minister Brishaketu Debbarma, to meet Chief Minister Manik Saha at the state secretariat on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media...